OK, so the Yankees lost on opening day...

with their $11 million a year ace on the mound.

I was chatting with my buddy who's a Red Sox fan the other day and he said signing A.J. Burnett was a bad move, and that he'll inevitably have a season-ending injury.

Even though he is injury-prone, even if AJ does get hurt, we don't have to deal with him at all in Toronto anymore.

C.C. has been used to running through National League lineups since he was traded to Milwaukee last year, and the last time he faced an AL East team on a big stage, he got rocked by the Red Sox in Game 1 of the 2007 ALCS and couldn't match zeroes with Josh Beckett in Game 5.

We'll chalk it up to Opening Day jitters this time around, but if he isn't dominant in his next start and somehow lets his former team, the Cleveland Indians, jump on him early in the new Yankee Stadium, it'll be a rough going for Sabathia in the big city early on. I'm much less worried about Burnett.

The overlooked goat in Monday's 10-5 loss at Baltimore was Xavier Nady. In the top of the sixth, after knocking in Cano on a ground-rule double to make the score 6-3, Nady got caught drifting off third base after Derek Jeter singled off the shortstop's glove. Then in the seventh he grounded into an inning-ending double play after they got back to within a run of the Orioles.

That's three extra outs his team desperately needed that Nady just threw away.

I was telling Dan to be scared of Brett Gardner in this lineup and he's an actual defensive player. He helped keep the game interesting by throwing out Melvin Mora at the plate on a Greg Zaun pop fly to end the fifth.

And he's a reliable bunter that Girardi relied on in the eighth to get Nick Swisher over to third base with the potential tying run, but Jeter couldn't get it out of the infield, and Mark Teixeira (I think I'll be cutting and pasting that name for at least two months) couldn't get the big two-out hit.

Props to the Baltimore fans for interfering with Damon's play on César Izturis's three-run homer in the next inning. That was the cherry on top of a pretty lame opening day.

But hey, even the 1998 Yankees lost on Opening Day. Now it's up to Wang to right the ship on Wednesday, but I think Burnett would be the better No. 2 starter.