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Keep Calm, It’s An Off Day: Yankees Edition

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The Yankees lost yesterday.

I’m sure you know this because according to lots of Yankee fans, it was the end of the world. Those same people were acting as if the season was one game in duration and that the Yankees’ Opening Day performance is a glimpse into how they’ll do the rest of the season.

baseballredstitchesIt’s not.

Everyone knew going into yesterday’s game that it wasn’t your typical Yankees lineup – this was obvious when guys like Ben Francisco, Lyle Overbay and Vernon Wells were introduced. So you’d assume that expectations wouldn’t be that high and that if the Yankees were to lose, people would be accepting of that not-so-shocking result and not act like a relative just died. You’d be wrong.

Another thing most Yankee fans should know but seemed to forget yesterday is that CC Sabathia is a notoriously slow starter and that coming back from off-season elbow surgery is making that start even slower – at least according to the velocity readings we were bombarded with during and following the game. CC’s fastball was consistently around 88 mph which is down for him.

CUE THE PANIC.

Sabathia, for his part, said he wasn’t worried. And I wasn’t worried. This is not the first time he hasn’t performed well on Opening Day and it probably won’t be the last. Some fans, in their overreactions to CC’s start, are proving that they barely pay attention when watching games. If they did, they’d know that yesterday’s outcome wasn’t a surprise.

To my dismay, even some of my fellow bloggers have written things about CC that would make it seem that they’ve never watched him pitch in April before. Or even pitch against the Red Sox.

I think some Yankee fans would be better off not watching any sort of baseball coverage today.

Here are some things we can all do to pass the time this afternoon:
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  • Work. And I mean, actually doing your work, not pretending to do your work while listening to baseball or sneaking a peak of Gameday on your desktop. Just take a day off from it altogether.
  • Avoid every newspaper, sports radio show and ESPN. Believe me, you’ll be better off.
  • Go for a run or a walk.
  • Watch the 50th Anniversary Episode of General Hospital. It’s on at 2 p.m. 
  • Clean your closet – It’s Spring so it’s the perfect time for a Spring cleaning.
  • If you’re a lady, maybe pamper yourself. Go get a mani/pedi during your lunchhour or after work.
  • If you’re a dude, hell you can pamper yourself too! Get a massage.
  • Bake some cookies. I may do that today – I’m thinking of baking walnut chocolate chip.
  • Count out the change in your wallet/purse. It’s always fun discovering how much money you actually have.

Do any of these activities or something else you can think of, just don’t watch any replays of yesterday’s game, you’ll only make things worse for yourselves.

I’m disappointed because I was so excited for baseball to return. Spring Training seemed endless and I was like a kid on Christmas yesterday morning but if this season is going to be filled with ridiculous overreactions to every single game, I may need to take a break from blogging about baseball.

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