Hope everyone had a nice Easter and Passover holidays. One of the best parts of being married is having two dinners on holidays. I still feel full today!

One week into the baseball season and one thing is for certain, the Yankees starting pitching has been pathetic so far. Only one pitcher, Kei Igawa, has last 5 innings, and he gave up 7 runs. I know the weather was brutal in the Bronx for their first 6 games, but they have guys who are supposed to be "big game" pitchers in Andy Pettitte and Mike Mussina and those guys did nothing. I'm not going to make excuses for them, but you can bet that Mussina is probably still whining about the cold weather.

On the other hand, the Red Sox starters have been good. Outside of Curt Schilling's first start and the start by Julian Tavarez, they have been really solid. Schilling pitched well last night and Daisuke Matsuzaka was phenomenal in his major league debut. And how about Jonathan Papelbon's save last night. He came in the 8th inning leading 3-2 with a runner on third and got the Sox out of the jam. I am sure Terry Francona is happy that Joel Pineiro wasn't called upon for that situation (he actually started the problems).

I am not at all in panic mode, despite going 2-4 at home against the Devil Rays and Orioles, but it's time for Carl Pavano to show something tonight when he pitches in Minnesota against the Twins. The bullpen has worked too much already, and is it really asking a lot of Pavano to throw 7 solid innings. It would be nice to use Mariano Rivera again who has only pitched 2 innings.