After the Yankee post game on Yes last night I happen to catch the infomercial for Steiner Sports and their  wholesale whoring out of every bit and piece of the old Yankee stadium.  Hey.. I can understand people would want to buy stadium seats, pieces of the outfield field, pieces of the facade, lockers, signs and many more interest and historic items.   However, I have to draw the line at spending $80 on a small patch of freeze dried grass from the field… yes.. freeze dried grass.   This grand structure that was once the place where every young ball player wanted to work is not being reduced to selling dirt and grass plants from it’s field.  You can seem Brandon Steiner licking his chops as he talks about the “less expensive” items that are available for purchase.  It reminded me of when someone auctioned off Luis Gonzales’s used bubble gum on eBay.   So our final memory of the grand old stadium will be seeing reduced to small plugs of grass encased in collector’s glass.   I ain’t buyin.

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A few weeks ago, prior to the return of A-Rod I wrote how the top paid Yankees had lost their hunger for winning.   How since they had received their big pay days or were close to the end of careers they really didn’t have the same heart as teams with young, hungry players.  BOY WAS I WRONG!

The Yankees have turned it around and are ripping up AL pitchers left and right delivery heart breaking loses to the Twins and beating up on the O’s these past two series.   A-Rod’s back, Brune’s back, Tex is getting more pitches to drive and the rotation is coming together.  

The Yankee’s stand only two and half games behind Toronto and one game behind Boston.  The division remains tough but the Yanks are showing their ability to collect wins along the way.   After Baltimore they have the Phillies which could be tough… but then on to Texas, Cleveland then Texas again.  Then they have Tampa Bay for four games which will be a good test.  The true test will be their next series against the Red Sox the second week in June.   Feeling pretty good about the Yankees now… Pretty Damn Good.

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