[Enterprise1788]

But they weren't the team in the east that blew a 5 1/2 game lead- and lost the season series, were they?

After last year, no Yankees fan can ever talk about blowing a huge lead.

[PzLdr]

Yeah, we can. We blew a playoff series to a great Red Sox team [a statement that has never been reciprocated when the spike was on the other foot]. But until the SOX make up a 14 1/2 to 15 game deficit from the All Star break on [you DO remember '78, don't you?], the American sign for the deaf for the Red Sox is choking oneself. If you can get over 78, I can get over 2004.