Yankee Blogosphere Linkapalooza For The Week That Was (March 29-April 4)

Game starts in a little over 8 hours.  Can't even focus enough to write an intro for this week's batch 'o links.  Here they are.

- Chad Jennings at LoHud breaks down the early season plan for Phil Hughes.  The Yankees seem to have learned from their mistakes with Joba last year and I expect this season to go a lot more smoothly with Hughes.

- River Ave. Blues puts all of their season preview posts together for your viewing pleasure.  I had already read all of them so I was up to date.  But if you haven't, and shame on you if you haven't, feel free to check them out so you know what the F is going on before the first pitch tonight.

- Mike Axisa at River Ave. Blues takes a look at all the potential milestones on the horizon for certain Yankees this year.  Sure the A-Rod and Jeter ones are a big deal, but I personally like the ones that Jorge could reach and the company it would put him in as a catcher.  Should be interesting to see how much HOF talk Jorge generates after he finally retires.

- Dan Reiner at Bronx Baseball Daily examines the Yankees' season schedule and points out the easier stretches and more difficult patches that await them as well as highlighting key series.  I love how the season starts and ends in Boston.  Hopefully by the time October 1 rolls around the Yankees have already reached their magic number.

- Jay at Fack Youk collects all the AL East previews they did this week with great interviews with guests representing each team.  Of course, the most important feature of this post is the fact that everybody picked the Yankees to win the division.

- Fernando Alejandro at the always hilarious Respect Jeter's Gangster discusses the last-minute preparations that some of the Yankees are going through for tonight.  Sometimes those little things are the difference between winning and losing.

- Moshe Mandel at The Yankee U checks out the group of writers who will be covering the Bombers for the new ESPN NY and he is not impressed.  I'm just shocked ESPN even allowed this site to go up.  After all, their MO is always to trash the Yankees and slurp the Red Sox, so why didn't they just go with a second ESPN Boston?

- Moshe's colleague at TYU, Chris H., discusses something once considered unthinkable in Yankeeland, that being trading Joba Chamberlain.  I wouldn't trade Joba right now, especially with the lingering injuries to Ace and Marte, but since the Yankees have made it clear that they have absolutely no clue what they're going to do with Joba long-term, talking about trading him makes just as much sense as anything else.

It ain't my best batch, but come on, it's Opening Night.  There are bigger things on the horizon today.

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