Hate to give the Yankees & Red Sox more attention than they already get/deserve, but New York made it a bittersweet hundredth anniversary of Fenway Park Friday with a 6-2 win over the Sox. The Yankees improve to 8-6 and the Red Sox are just 4-9.

God bless the Cubs and Padres. Otherwise, they'd make my Royals look pitiful.

The Yankees are starting to heat up... hopefully the Rangers can cool them off when they return home tomorrow.

The Rangers' eight-game win streak was snapped by Detroit in the second game of the doubleheader yesterday, although they out-hit the Tigers, 7-3. They made up for it today with a 3-2 win in 11 to take three of four and improve to 13-3.

After today's 12-0 win over the Dodgers, the Astros are 6-10 but have outscored their opponents this year by 10 runs. Explain that.

This is terrible! No mention of the Phil Humber 21st official (22nd unofficial) perfect game EVER in MLB history?! Or as I call it, "only the 21st time the starting pitcher actually did what he was supposed to!" Granted there's been 11/12 perfect games since 1988 & only 10 in the prior 107 seasons, but it's still extremely remarkable given the defense didn't potentially intentionally botch a close play to preserve the perfect game. Mind you the Mariners were 13th of 14th in the A.L. in hitting going into the game & Safeco is a pitcher's haven, but hardly the requirement for a perfect game. I think everyone is put off by who it was (a journeyman) & the team whom he plays for (the White Sox; whom nobody cares about); it may as well had been Erik Bedard or done in Cleveland. I understand there was a Yankees/Red Sox game on Saturday, according to Bud Selig that 94% of MLB fans had a rooting interest in that game & the Sunday game got rained out, much to the dismay & utter complete catastrophe to ESPN, who was bawling like an infant over it.

I would consider it 23 because I still wished Mike Mussina got that perfect game in Fenway. Carl f'ing Everett was a PH and had 2 strikes on him. If he had struck out, Mike could've goten that on elusive no hitter of his career. Anyway, as for the duel of the Japanese starters: I wasn't surprised of the outcome as the Yankees for some reason always do horribly against someone they never saw before. Plus Kuroda to his credit only gave up 2 runs, which would've been enough if the hitting got any run support for him. So Monday's win was great with Arod and Jeter both hitting well so far and CC pitching well. Yankees have at least 3 reliable starters now and we just need to wait for Andy to return. Pineda's setback is gonna be a big problem.

Not as an impressive of a performance as Phil Humber's perfect game obviously, but Yu Darvish improves to 3-0 with a 2-0 win over the Yankees last night in which he struck out 10 Yankees in 8.1 innings pitched.

Hey, Texas fans can celebrate, but like I said: Yankees historically never do well against pitchers they've faced for the first time. Plus Hughes at this point is washed up as a starter. Yankees should either put him in the pen or the minors and have someone else take his spot till Pettitte is ready to return.

So had Kuroda started the 3rd game of the set, Yankees could've taken 2 of 3. But it's still a young season and lots of games to go. I also agree that it was laughable that everyone was already crowning the Angels as the division winner. It's still the Rangers's spot to lose.

It's also April. Even the crappiest of crappy players (like Aramis Ramirez) can struggle for a long part of the season & end up putting respectable stats because it's such a long season & there's too many games. While a slow start in April isn't certain death, it's also not the best thing that could happen, either. The Angels could hit a soft spot in the schedule & gain some ground. Having Pujols (whom isn't as automatic as he used to be) helps but it doesn't completely mask what a horrible hitting & OBP team the Angels are. Hmmm, Cleveland, Minnesota, Oakland, White Sox, Padres, Mariners. Yup - Angels should be at .500 by June.

Unsubscribing to channels to save money took away by Rangers games. I've been following on MLB Gamecast.

I'm not sure what that had to do with anything. Just throwing it out there I guess.

But Rangers lose the first at home to Tampa behind Matt Harrison giving up 4 runs in the first inning. And it's not like the Rangers didn't have opportunities to win, stranding three runners on twice I believe.