Wang very impressive yesterday, the best in quite a while. Was that a 4-seamer that broke back over the plate to lefties? If he ios back in top form, thats a big plus.

We wonder if Giardi, who is a thinking mans manager, at least by reputation, while go against conventional wisdom in his use of relievers. Every manager is a slave to the ridiculous "save" rule-- coming in with a three run lead qualifies. We were hoping for the Yanks to score 1 or two in the seventh to see if giradi brought back Joba in the eighth, rather than go with his lefty reliever and save Joba for another day. the first manager to use his top relievers intelligently, i.e. when there are men on in late innings, will have a big edge.

Tough beginning at 2-3, but looking through things, more good than bad.

Wang, solid first outing after poor spring.  Our big concern was that hitters seemed to figure him out a bit late last year, particularly Boston.  They laid off the low sinker, took it for a ball, forced Wang to throw more pitches, throw more strikes.  We'll see, we're nervous that Cashman didn't offer him a 3-4 year contract, which he wanted (do the yanks have the same fear?).  But, so far, so good.

Mussina was OK, Hughes looked very solid, Kennedy looked to have good stuff, missed the corners, Pettitte had a terrible error by Duncan, plus a cheap HR that Damon might have caught if he played LF.

Giambi looks to be swinging OK, despite his slow start.  Biggest front office mistake in offseason was not bringing back Mankiewicz.  We need someone to take the innings load off Giambi, play defense in the late innings.  We have no natural first baseman-- Duncan is terrible in the field and we think he'll hit under .250 with a lot of S/O.  Maybe Bettecort?  An unneccesary weakness.