Home away from home

The Yanks were in one of their favorite locales this weekend for a series against the Os and came away with a couple wins. For some odd reason the Bombers treat Camden Yards like it's Yankee Stadium South.... not that I'm complaining. Saturday's game was a laugher with another 5 HRs hit.
Yesterday's game was a bit of a nail biter with the new guy in town Russell Martin getting the game winning hit in the 11th. So much for Buck's team that started with a bunch of wins out of the gate.

As of yet I have not figured out what's up with my scanner. I'm very very close to just going and buying another one out of spite. I really need to get that squared away before the '11 Bowman comes a knockin'.

Rain rain go away.....

So the Yanks/Os was a washout in Baltimore last night. Will we even get to nicer weather? Will CC ever pick up win number one on the season? Will I ever get my scanner working again properly? Who knows, but I do know one thing...... relax and enjoy a homebrew. Sorry mixed up my blogs, lol

Nice one by Bartolo

Nice win tonight for Bartolo Colon, his first since May 26 of '09. He smartly used all parts of the plate and kept the Jays guessing. I'll take it. Now if only the Rays and Sox kept up their losing ways I would love to get like a 12 game lead by June 1, lol.

Didn't last long

So my scanner is already giving me issues. Ugh. I'm hoping a quick re-install of the drivers and software will square things away and allow me to upload moor pics of bad junk wax. Here's to figuring a quick solution to my problem(s).

The Yanks wrap up a short two game series tonight in Toronto after blowing one in the tenth inning last night. All I can say is Mo is human and is bound to not be perfect. That he has done it for this long this consistently is mond boggling. That he has done it with one pitch makes you want to question the Baseball Gods.

My man Freddy

It looks like Freedy Garcia turned back the clock to 2001 and pitched lights out yesterday. If he can keep that up who needs Cliff Lee..... oh wait we do. The Yanks have shown a propensity the last couple years of finding lightning in a bottle starting pitching-wise. From Aaron Small's one year stint at greatness to Shawn Chacon doing it for half a year to Chien Mien Wangs extended two and a half years of premium pitching, the Bombers on occasion can find 'em in the weeds. Who knows.

Ohhhh and I've got a secret.......

I've got the starting pitching blues

Is it me or does the Yankee starting pitching look like it is straight outta double A?
One pathetic start after another after another. When your best SP on the season thus far is A.J. Burnett you know things have gone awry. Hughes = junk. Nova = garbage. Even CC = pedestrian. There are only soo many times your lineup is going to save you from yourself.

Phil Hughes goes on the 15 day DL yesterday one day after getting the white smacked out of him. Supposedly it's a "deadarm" possibly from him throwing 190 Innings last year or so the theory goes. Does that mean that each and every Yankee prospect from now on is only going to be allowed to increase their total over the year before by 10?
Guys are going to 31 years old before they are allowed to make a full seasons worth of starts.

No need for a dome?

Who needs a dome when you play baseball in the Northeast in March and April? Not the Yanks or the Mets who have fancy new houses. Two weeks into the schedule and the weather has already played havoc with the Yanks and they might miss yet another game tonight with rain. I could see a football team not wanting a dome but baseball? The season goes from March until November these days, there's bound to be some shat weather in that span. Bah.

As for one to file in the Things that make me smile collumn, the Sox and their 2 and 9 start are tops on that list right now. The Rays go for the sweep tonight and I have my pom poms out and ready.

Eat them words

Sooooooo..... I guess I need to give the Rays some credit after the shellacking they put on Dice-K and the Sox pitchers. My prediction of an enemic offense lasted all of about 4 hours. Serves me right for trying to be cute/funny.

On another note I am starting to worry about our Capt. Two years ago I would have pencilled him in for 3,700+ hits easy. Now with every ounce of pop gone from his bat I dunno if he will even get to 3,200 let alone 3,500. I was hoping it was an injury that sidelined him last year, but now it's starting to look like just plain old "old age". Damn shame. Hopefully he doesn't let his ego get in the way of him moving himself voluntarily to the lower part of the order, which is where someone with his greatly diminished skillset belongs. Fare thee well Captain.

No nail in the coffin

So god forbid the Yanks do themselves a favor and totally stick it to the Sox when they are down. Nope, let's grant them some clemency and let them back into this season. Bah! At least the Rays are still reeling (and with that linup their woes will continue)

I took all I had this weekend to not go and buy about 8 boxes of wax to bust. This card stuff is for real, like my caffeine addiction. Damn you Strasburg for having a superfractor last year that woke this sleeping bear!

Lakewood Blue Claws

So I've been tossing about the idea of buying season tickets to the Blue Claws, a class A affiliate of the Phillies. Tickets are pretty cheap, like whole-season-for-price-of-a-single-Yankee-ticket kinda cheap. They had a pretty stocked team last year, but most of those guys have moved up to AA ball. Anybody dealt with them or have any experiences good or bad?

So much for our bullet-proof pen

Well, it couldn't last forever. I'm talking about the seemingly endless winnging streak against the Twins at the Stadium. They started off nice and strong with Tex ripping another shot, followed by Andrew Jones' first of the year, but couldn't seal the deal.

Oh and I swear by all that is holy I will figure out the whole scan/bucket/upload scans thing. I swear it!

One more month

So we are about a month away from the release of '11 Bowman and I'm itching up a storm to rip some. I plan on pre-ordering a couple boxes of both jumbo and regular hobby. I know the ceiling isn't as high as the '10 product, but I'm still super-stoaked for the product

Let's go Yanks!

So I'm kinda late for opening day..... oh well. Pitching looked kinda spotty this weekend but it's early. The Bombers open a series against the Twinkies tonight at the stadium, let's look for three out of four! My thoughts on a couple of subjects for the spring:

Montero needed more seasoning so starting the year in AAA was ok with me

Romine wasn't nearly as close to being big league ready as was advertised

My heart wasn't set on either Colon or Garcia, so no tears there

Tex spent alot more time this offseason doing baseball related things.... and it looks it after 3 games and 3 HR

Next year I would expect two of the three "Killer Bs" to really make a push into the starting five. All of them have live arms and look like they know how to use them

Update for March

I've bought a some cards recently but have not been giving the instructions necessary to scan/upload into the blog. I'm hoping to rectify the situation soon. Stay tuned 'cause they include a nice variety.

Scanner-rific

So I broke down and bought a scanner this weekend whilest picking up a wireless mouse/keyboard for some tv/pc from the couch action. Gotta love it. Now if only I had Alec show me how to get the pics named and then online into my 'bucket. I think I'll try to play with it a bit and see how much damage I can do. Stay tuned

Now you've done it

So I was out and about do things on Saturday when I realized I needed a box to put all of the junkwax I was busting. A hum and a haw later and I picked up some 2011 Topps series one and some 2010 Bowman Prospects and Draft Picks. Wow. All I can say is wow. The Topps base set is great looking, in my eyes, with an absolute ton of parallels and the BDPP is a continuation of the '10 Bowman line. I have to give the Topps two thumbs up and the Bowman gets one up and one down even after I pulled a red refractor of Addison Reed.

Forgot about Andy

I can't believe I forgot to post about Andy Pettite's retiring from baseball. A truly great guy and a standup fella. Good luck to you wherever you go Andy..... you will be missed.

Updates

My buddy is coming down next weekend and I'm hoping to have him help me update the blog a bit. Maybe a little spring cleaning is in the works

Getting the itch

So I am putting up "the good fight" with regards to buying cards, but with the Topps series 1 looking nice and with the 2011 Bowman due out soon, I dunno how much longer I can control the beast. In the last couple days I have had to turn off the computer to help fight the urge. I have even hesitated going to Target and passing by the card display there for fear of the repercussions.

Maybe I'll head to my Dad's and play with my cards to feel better, or will that make things worse?

Sorry 'bout that

Sorry that I haven't posted much lately, been very busy with vacation and then 40 hours of training this week on top of my regular work hours. Things will return to normal soon. I'm almost outta junkwax so I will need to make a trip to Target for "housegoods" soon, lol.

Just saw the 2011 Topps design and wasn't thoroughly disgusted so that's a good thing. Awesome contest going on over at . Check it out.

edit. I just noticed that the link I tried to put in this post didn't exactly work. Damn I hate being so computer illeterate.

Now playing on ESPN the ocho.....

So I guess it's been awhile between posts and I didn't even realize it. My bad to all who were harmed or involved in any way. I'll more than make up for it EIGHT count 'em eight packs of junkwax. Let's start the show.....first up

2008 Topps Opening Day

#94 Moises Alou
#16 Cole Hamels
Matt Holliday mural piece card
#178 Carlos Lee
#160 Lance Berkman
#66 The Big Z Carlos Zambrano

2007 Upper Deck Baseball Series Two

#826 Oliver Perez
#980 Cameron Loe
#577 Joel Pinero
#880 Michael Bourn RC
#599 Carlos Zambrano

2007 Topps Baseball Updates and Highlights

#UH324 Dan Wheeler
#UH113 Wille Harris
#UH 54 Mark Teixeira
#ARHR393 Arod Road to 500 refractor shiny-ness
#UH258 Miguel Cabrera
#UH224 Prince Fielder

2009 Upper Deck SP

#65 Randy Johnson
#2 Derek Jeter
#66 Jay Bruce
#31 Jon Lester
#87 B.J. Upton

2007 Topps Opening Day

#15 Magglio Ordonez
#134 Jason Bay
#3 Jake Westbrook
#144 David Eckstein
#178 Delwyn Young RC
#56 Javier Vazquez

2007 Topps Baseball Updates and Highlights

#UH62 Mike Fontenot
#UH63 Cesar Izturis
#UH56 Jamie Burke
#UH166 Felix Pie RC gold 833/2007
#UH160 Hunter Pence RC
#UH217 Placido Polanco

2009 Allen and Ginter

#189 Casey Kotchman
#111 Jason Giambi
#213 Stephanie Brown Trafton (female discus champion)
#136 Mickey Mantle
#130 Johnny Damon mini
#NP66 Joba Chamberlain National Pride

2008 Topps Opening Day

#195 Chin-Lung Hu RC
#107 Rich Harden
#33 Dan Uggla
#157 Brian Roberts
#158 Bobby Abreu

Oh my that's some list today