Stay Calm

You can shuffle lineups, review tape and tinker with swings all you want, but nothing jump starts an offense like bad pitching. After being held to just two runs over the first two games of the series, the Yankees were able to knock in six runs off of journeyman John Bale and the long past his prime Hideo Nomo. Unfortunately, the Red Sox are going to be sending far better pitchers to the mound this weekend, and it remains to be seen whether the Yankee offense is ready to face them.

Of course no matter how the weekend goes, we should all remember that it's still far too early in the season to be panicking, In fact, I think we should be pretty happy with the fact that the team remains at .500 despite it's troubles at the plate. This lineup has too much talent to remain cold for long, and as long as the pitching remains solid, the rest will fall into place.