Welcome back, everyone! It seems like forever since the Yankees have played a game. They will take on Giancarlo Stanton’s former team this week and what better way to prepare for this series than for me to spew some random thoughts?
Let’s begin…
- This weekend was so strange.
- Even though the Yankees didn’t play for two days it felt much longer.
- Friday feels like it was two weeks ago.
- Remember Friday? When Aaron Hicks hit an inside-the-park home run and a regular over-the-fence home run in the same game?
- Yeah.
- The weather is wreaking havoc all over the place.
- Besides the Yankees and Tigers, the Angels/Royals, Blue Jays/Indians, Twins/White Sox and Braves/Cubs all were postponed on Sunday.
- From Maury Brown on Twitter: There have now been 23 weather postponements in MLB since the start of the season on 3/29, and 20 for the month of April. The record for the last 18 years for April was 26 in 2007.
- When you looked at the scoreboard bug either on your phone or on your computer, it probably looked very strange seeing so many postponements.
- I thought it looked strange.
- Mother Nature was not fooling around.
- April is a strange month weather-wise anyway.
- I remember way back in elementary school when classrooms had big walls outside the rooms that you could decorate and our first-grade teacher made an “April showers bring May flowers,” display.
- What about April snow showers and blizzards? What do they bring?
- So Giancarlo Stanton will be facing his former team tonight.
- That should be interesting.
- I really hope he gets four hits tonight.
- I’m sick of Yankee fans booing him.
- It’s dumb.
- I know they do it to everyone and believe they’re “entitled” to boo whoever they choose but I’m entitled to think that they’re all a bunch of spoiled jackasses.
- Oh, and Starlin Castro will also be facing his former team.
- And Caleb Smith!
- I also hope Severino doesn’t have the same issues he had in Boston last week.
- Losing to the Marlins would be bad.
- They’re not good.
- The Yankees are not playing well at all.
- This is not who they are.
- Some people think it is but it’s not.
- Some people want to hit the panic button already but it’s way too soon.
- And yes, I know, every game counts but we’ve seen the Yankees have slow starts before and end up doing just fine.
- They’re just working out the kinks, I guess.
- Oh, speaking of that. What is up with Dellin Betances?
- He really cannot be trusted right now.
- I don’t want him near a mound unless the Yankees have an insurmountable lead.
- I’m talking at least 10 runs.
- That’s how much I don’t want to see him pitch.
- Tommy Kahnle also needs to figure out some stuff.
- I think the Yankees will get better when the weather gets better.
- That may be goofy but I don’t care.
- Now if only the weather would cooperate.
- I just want the Yankees to rattle off a few wins.
- Am I asking for too much?
- Find out this week!