THE NICEST DAY OF THE YEAR!

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The Yankees win in their first Spring Training game.  That's the least of it but still great.

As a baseball fan, it's just great to see our New York Yankees take the field today.  It was great to see baseball in live action on YES Network today.  It was great to see Giancarlo Stanton in pinstripes. 

Photo: Pete Caldera Tweet

Pete Caldera of the Bergen Record had the best Tweet to complete our day as Yankee fans...

Yankees win the Grapefruit League opener, 3-1 over Detroit. Aaron Boone on his first exhibition win as manager: "It's always fun to shake hands (after a game). But I thought for the first day we did a lot of things well.''

— Pete Caldera (@pcaldera) February 23, 2018

And that's it!  This is the "working-out-the-kinks" portion of our New York Yankees. 

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Couple that with what we heard from people like Kenny Singleton, read HERE

in this morning's BYB post, and the excitement we feel and even appreciate has been officially established for 2018!

Estevan Florial is up. Nick Swisher is really pumped about him — and everything, really. Nick Swisher gets pumped over laundry. But he really likes Florial: https://t.co/89EBdbRix1

— Brendan Kuty (@BrendanKutyNJ) February 23, 2018

When you see a guy like Nick Swisher who's out there as a Yankee special assistant chatting it up with the Yanks the last few days... there is this undeniable feeling of hope and energy we haven't seen with this team since 1996... we're BACK!

Bottom line, today felt good. No... it felt great.  We need it as Yankee fans and you know what? The Yankees haven't won it all since 2009.  That, my friends is a drought.  We are ready for a championship. 

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Cashman did some great things this off season.  We are a great group of hardworking players and the most important part of it? They are talented and YOUNG.

Very, very exciting.  

I leave you with this; I love what MLB did about today's game.  All players in baseball were required to wear SD caps in honor of the fallen in that terrible shooting at that Parkland Florida High School... Stoneman Douglas.

 

Class act.  Loved it. I want to order my own. I hope the proceeds go to those families.

We need more kindness in this world.  I approve 100%, Rob Manfred.