I Admit It. I Cashed in a Chip to Assure Yankee Win

I've received just under 200,000 twitters on how wrong I was about predicting an 0-2 start up in Boston. They are still coming in so, like Alan Greenspan, I will undertake to explain myself to Congress:

1. I hated last year when Boston fans got to gloat for half the year about "dissing us" with an 8-0 start against the Yankees. So I changed the game and predicted a 2-0 start for them. As you all know, when I'm wrong, I'm usually right.

2. I was pretty much right on about AJ; he didn't give up 5 in the first, but he left the game pretty early, with the Yanks in a 4-4 tie. More importantly, according to notarized sports records, AJ only tried his " loopy" new pitch once last night. So much for that myth.

3. I did say Ace or Mitre would do the job and Ace was amazing. Glad he got the win. What is he now, 11-0 with the Yankees?

4. What's with Dave Robertson? The first guy he faces now always gets a hit.

5. Joba has our love interest stirring again and he is back where he belongs. He always belonged there. The yankees never should have moved him to be a pretend starter. Maybe, just maybe, they will survive their horrible error in judgement. Nice work for the kid, in Boston of all places. And a big spot. This might just re-start that electricity of his.

6. I don't like this David Bard character ( is that his name? I was having 4th martini...). In any case, he is the Red Sox reliever who throws 100 and has a nasty curve. Twice we have faced him now, and twice it's been like facing Joba in his rookie season.

7. Marcus looked a little lost out there in LF didn't he? But Grandy had a time with an easy fly ball, too. Must have been a wind devil.

8. Thank you MO, as always.

9. Can we find a way to leave even more guys on base, in scoring position, and not drive them in?