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The Yankees will crush the Bosox in seven.

If you don't understand how that is not a self- contradictory statement, you haven't been paying attention.

That said, I gotta spout off about how TV scheduling is ruining post-season baseball. All of these days off means that Boston can go into this season with what amounts to a two-man rotation and have a good chance of winning. This is just flat-out wrong. It should take the same thing to win in the post season as it does to win during the regular season. The quality of your fourth starter and the depth of your bullpen should be important issues. But in the modern post season, these things just don't matter.

Boston built their team to win this particular series. The Yankees will not allow this to happen.

Life would be so much less fun if it were not for Red Sox fans. Their hearts filled with childlike innocent hopes of the championship which has eluded them, their parents and their grandparents, they dream the impossible baseball dream.

Since last the Dead Sox won a championship, the Yankees have won all 26 of the Yankee championships.

Tonight's festivities (with Schilling suffering a bad ankle needing pain shots) should feature skillful bunting down the first base line by Jeter, Cairo, A-Rod, Lofton and others. Even without the bad ankle, Schilling would suffer from all the exercise. Pedro Martinez recenly held a press conference to proclaim that the Yankees are "daddy" by virtue of the way they dominate him. Arroyo is young and has not yet fully imbibed the futility of the Fenway Faithful. Maybe he will imbibe now. Wakefield and his damnable knuckleball are more effective against the Yanks than any other Dead Sox starter.

Nomar Garciaperra is already gone. Will he switch to 2B and call Yankee Stadium home?

Then, after this season, the Dead Sox face the free agency problem. Catcher Jason Varitek (more valuable by far than many realize), strugglng pitcher Derek Lowe, Ace Pedro Martinez, outfielder Trot Nixon, and important others. This is the last shot for this Bosox team. They won't all return. Tampa Bay and Baltimore fight it out for second place next year.

I know what you pray for.

Red Sox win Game 1, 10-0
Red Sox win Game 2, 20-0
Red Sox win Game 3, 30-0
Yankees win Game 4, 4-3 on a 9th-inning GS
Yankees win Game 5, 4-3 on a 9th-inning GS
Yankees win Game 6, 4-3 on a 9th-inning GS
Yankees win Game 7, 4-3 on a 9th-inning GS