Hank Steinbrenner has been strangely quite. The next paragraph he utters will set the tone for the season.C.C. Sabathia and Nick Swisher are on Twitter. Let's see if they can handle 140 characters a day.
You'll hear Yankee names floated at trade deadline: Swisher, Xavier Nady, Phil Hughes.
During the season, John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman will combine to use a total of 832 adjectives to describe new Yankee Stadium.
At least one team this season will need help to make its payroll. I'm betting it's the Detroit Tigers.
If C.C. Sabathia throws one complete game before the All-Star Break, he will feel tenderness in his throwing arm -- elbow or shoulder -- sometime in late July.
Joe Girardi will be ejected five times before the All-Star Break.
Two Yankees will fight in the clubhouse and have to be pulled apart by teammates. We'll learn about the altercation in late August.
The Japanese press will resort to one or two pool reporters this season in an effort to save money.
At least one New York-area daily will stop covering Yankee road trips on the West Coast.
In late June, the public will learn about another Red Sox artifact buried somewhere under the new stadium.
The two Yankees fighting will be Jorge and Jeter. Even BFFs go through a bad patch.
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