3 HRs and Rivalry Weekend

What a day, what a day.  Curtis Granderson went 5-5 last night with 3, yes 3 HRs.  On what should have been just another normal Yankees over Twins victory, the Grandyman came up big, becoming the first Yankee since ARod to go deep 3 times in  game.  To add to it, he picked up 2 additional hits in pacing the Yankees to the win.  Big Joe said it best in the postgame, as a pull hitter, Curtis is built for Yankee stadium.  He's a tremendous asset to the Yankees and a true gamer.  He's electric both at the plate and in the field and it's great having him in center.  In case you missed it - Mark Texeira went yard (good), Eduardo Nunez made a costly error (bad), Phil Hughes managed to battle for the W (ok), and Mo looked like the assassin of the 9^th that he always has been (normal).  All of these things mean all is well in Yankee Land. 

Today we get the 100^th anniversary of Fenway and the Yankees/Sox in throwback 1912 uniforms and a weekend of rivalry baseball.  The Honey Badger, Ivan Nova, gets the ball.  Another big time game for this guy.  I guarantee he don’t care.  The media circus/soap opera going on in Boston is out of control at this point and is really just covering up a mediocre baseball team.  Hopefully the Yankee bats, which have been getting hotter and hotter, will pound the Red Sox deeper down the rankings and get Bobby V booed a little bit more.  If he were ever to keep his mouth shut, I’d probably feel bad for him.  Fortunately I know that will never happen.   

In the end, there’s really no better way to muzzle the Red Sox then putting a hurting on them on the 100^th anniversary of their ballpark.  I’m thinking this will be a special Friday for the Yanks, and getting home in time to have a beer(s) and catch the later innings of what will no doubt be a 4 hour plus game already has me in weekend mode.  Just need to sit here and pretend to do work for the next 7 hours…