WHY I LOVE SPRING NUGGETS

The East coast got crushed with more snow yesterday, but I don't care, Spring training is here and many things are happening:

• Alex Rodriguez is in perfect form according to Kevin Long, 10 pounds lighter, more flexible, stronger are all ways Long described Alex. Alex even said that he was given the green light to really train the way he's always done it, but the hip injury kept him back for a bit. To me, that's great news. Maybe a combination of feeling good, training hard and dating Mary will keep the guy on track for what I believe will be the best season of his career.

• Kevin Millwood turned down the minor league offer from the New York Yankees and talks appear to be over. Clearly the Yankees don't read BYB. If they did, they would have offered a 1 year Major League offer because we all knew Kevin Millwood and his ego would never accept that. Millwood, while an older timer at this point has a much better health record than Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia and those guys knew they'd never get a major league offer based on their injury record. Millwood eats innings and doesn't have the injury history like they do. You could see him not accepting that months ago, well, actually BYB did, Yanks did not. In the end, Millwood not coming to New York could be a good thing, the Yanks have plenty of pitchers to compete and I've accepted what they have.

• Mark Teixeira said he'd reject a trade for Albert Pujols. While I love Albert Pujols, I don't want to lose Mark Teixeira... Ever. You can't replace him, he's a huge upgrade after Jason Giambi and he's helped us win our first championship since 2000. It's a respect thing, so, respect that!

• Derek Jeter needs 74 hits to be the 28th man to have 3000 hits in baseball and he finally says he's going to try and enjoy it. Look, I love Jeter but there's this robot-esk thing about him that drives me crazy. It's good that finally he admits that he'll enjoy the hit and be alittle human. You should Jeet, you are the man.

• Yankees prospect Gary Sanchez had heart surgery. The kid is 18 years old and had an extra nerve in his heart since birth. He's resting comfortably and will make a full recovery. Get well soon Gary.
  

• On February 26th, the Yankees will play their first spring game against the Philadelphia Phillies in Tampa. It's important because we're 1 step closer to Opening day. Expect nothing but players trying to prove themselves and our starters sitting a lot, but it will be live baseball at least and it will be the first time we see Cliff Lee since the playoffs and that could be interesting.
  

Forget the snow in the New York area, Yanks baseball is here. Enjoy it, it'll help melt this crap and we can get on to better things.

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