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a good start would be getting quality starts from all our starters most games. if this happens , even with arod being out in april , the yankees should be able to play at a minimum of a .550 rate.

the team doesn’t seem to be made of good april players, so a minimum .550 start would have them positioned nicely for when the weather heats up.

I think we all want the Yankees to get off to a good start, but one day isn’t enough to make a judgment. I think a good start is a .500 or better road trip and a winning homestand (avg. 2 of 3). I think this is a good start AND a good pace to set over the course of the season. I like to avoid streaks, especially of the losing variety, in favor of consistency. I think they need to have a winning record in April.

Because the players are human, I don’t expect perfection. I didn’t like the results of Opening Day game – but, there were some good things that went on mixed in with the not-so-good. I always expect some kind of adjustment to the nasty weather in contrast to the gorgeous weather the players just came from. And I figure the home team on opening day is highly motivated to win. The Yankees gave them too many opportunities to capitalize on their motivation on Monday. I expect better today. And I don’t expect CC to have absolutely nothing next time around.

The other day you brought up the value of early games versus late games – basically the idea of whether games in April “count” as much as games in September.

Of course they do. And getting off to a fast start ensures you don’t have to win those games again. But early in the season, you know you there are miles of games in front of you to win. You don’t want to get too comfortable, though, and allow losses to mount to an uncomfortable number, and that is relative depending on what the other teams in the division are doing.

Wins are better than losses. Always. But you have to come to terms with the fact that you can’t win every game. And you can’t think a season is lost after one month. It may become a more difficult battle (as we’ve certainly seen with past Yankees teams), but you can’t lose the season in April.

As someone who has lived in RI for almost 20 years and have alot of friends who are sawx fans…it amazes me how Yankees fans act like pre-2004 sawx fans.

I remeber when I moved here and sawx fans would be giddy over being 3-4 games up in June/July…I would say lets see in September and as sure as the dollar being the strongest currency I would be right.

Well it seems that as the dollar is almost…or on its way to being worthless…it is no longer Yankees fans saying we’ll see in September.

I was afraid someone would say that. It definitely is a thorough and up-to-date site, and I’m so familiar with it that I could navigate it in my sleep. I was just hoping there’s some kind of lesser known quasi-underground site out there.

(I’m getting so sick of hearing Just Dance and Poker Face)