Yankees Win Home Opener

gridtalker posted 4/2/2008 from www.yankstalk.com [flag]

YANKEES 3 BLUE JAYS 2 It what was an Opening Day to remember for many reasons. The Final Opening Day at the current Yankee Stadium, Joe Girardi’s first opening day as Yankee Manager, and to top it off…. a great Yankees win!! Behind the great defense and homerun by Melky Cabrera, the Yankees defeated Roy Halladay and the Blue Jays 3-2. “You play Opening Day and you ... [link]

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Bird Droppings: Game 1 from the B&C Blue Jays Notebook

Spencer posted 4/2/2008 from www.bugsandcranks.com

From Bugs & Cranks, your source for news, notes and nonsense from Major League Baseball, comes Bird Droppings, the season-long Blue Jays notebook with a recap of Tuesday night's season opener. Sadly, it looked similar to a lot of games from last season.

WORTH THE WANG WAIT

NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees found this 4/2/2008 on www.nypost.com

As long as they hold Opening Days in the new Yankee Stadium the Yankees will be hard pressed to put on the show they did last night in the final Opening Day in their soon-to-be-gone digs. Granted, the pulsating 3-2 win over the Blue Jays in front...

Melky’s defense deserves a catch-phrase

FanIQ Blog found this 4/2/2008 on www.bugsandcranks.com

When the YES Network starts replaying last night’s season-opening 3-2 victory over Toronto as a Yankees Classic (c’mon, you know that is inevitable) they will have to sub-title it “The Melky Game.” That’s Melky as in ...

Yankees announce arrests

FanIQ Blog found this 4/2/2008 on www.boston.com

The New York Yankees announced today that two fans were arrested during Tuesday's Opening Day game vs. the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium for attempting to steal Stadium bunting and causing damage to the bunting and façade. Both fans ...

The Enemies List grows: Mike Mussina

Ghostrunner on First found this 4/2/2008 on taoofstieb.blogspot.com

Let's just get this out of the way, first and foremost. Mike Mussina sucks moose dong. Aside from that, there are numerous reasons for us to add the Yankees has-been to our list. Most of which were more eloquently summarized by the commenters in ...

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