Random News

-Melky Cabrera was optioned down to Triple-A Scranton today and Brett Gardner and Cody Ransom were called up. Gardner will play CF and Ransom can play all over the infield. Hopefully that means we won't see much of Betemit anymore. I've never liked the guy..he swings at almost everything he sees, occasionally hitting a hr or a double. Plus, he's not that great defensively. Melky better get his act together down in AAA. He's got a great arm out in center field, but it's not worth it having him int he lineup if he's an automatic out. This also will hopefully wake up Cano. Anyone notice that when we went on an 8-game winning streak Cano was getting a hit like every game?
-Sexson was released. He didn't really do much for us. It's too bad, but hey, at least it didn't cost us much.
-First-round draft pick Gerritt Cole decided not to sign with the Yankees and is instead going to UCLA. Fine, waste a perfect opportunity. If I played baseball and the Yankees wanted to sign me before I went to college, I'd totally do that. They're the YANKEES, for crying out loud.
-The new Yankee Stadium is opening on April 16, 2009 against the Indians. I am so excited! That's also my half-birthday. I don't know, thought I'd add that in there.
-Yankees are back home tonight to play against the Royals. I think I'll cry if we don't win at least 2 out of 3 from them. No, I actually WILL cry. The Yankees need to get rolling and tonight would be perfect to start that.
-Dan Giese was placed on the 15-day DL with rotator cuff tendinitis. Why am I not surprised? Players injured so far this year: Matsui, Chamberlain, Damon, Rodriguez, Wang, Posada, Hughes, Kennedy, Bruney ... let me know if I'm forgetting anyone. It gets hard when there's so many on there.