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<p>C.C. Sabathia of the Cleveland Indians and Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox have joined the cause for their strikeouts.</p> <p>Barry Zito, Oakland Athletics - 20 strikeouts .</p> <p>Curt Schilling, Boston Red Sox - 20 Strikeouts .</p> <p>C.C. Sabathia, Cleveland Indians - 16 strikeouts .</p>

This is the kind of September we are supposed to have with the Yankees and the Red Sox. This is the way it is supposed to be, a series like this at the Stadium this weekend, then another one next weekend at Fenway Park. It wasn't supposed to be as easy as the Red Sox made it look in April. It wasn't supposed to be the kind of knockout punch the Yankees threw at Boston at the end of June, that three-game series when Derek Jeter, in addition to everything else, seemed to have taught himself how to fly. It...

10/17/2003  3:28 AM ET--They had tears in their eyes as they spoke about friends, not just teammates. Baseball players talk about the family inside the clubhouse all the time, but this is a team that lived it like few others in recent memory, hugging their way deep into October.The band of brothers inside the Red Sox clubhouse was hurting as one, feeling pain they'd never felt before at the end of a baseball season like none they'd ever experienced before.After all they'd been through together through an amazing run in 2003, the Red Sox were one big, sad family in...

OCTOBER 17--It's not exactly "Dewey Defeats Truman," but The New York Post made a colossal error today on its editorial page. The paper somehow printed an editorial bemoaning last night's Yankees loss to the Boston Red Sox, noting that the "Curse of the Bambino boomeranged this year" and that the Bronx Bombers "couldn't get the job done at home." The editorial concluded, "Wait'll next year!" Obviously, the Post piece was drafted while the Yanks were trailing the Sox, but was--unbelievably--not yanked when the club tied the game in the eighth inning and won it on Aaron Boone's walkoff home run...

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Post responses on this thread. Do or die for the Marlins. Break the Curse and Go to the Series or sink into ignominy for yet another year for the Cubbies. Which will it be? Quien es mas macho? Remember, Obey the Billygoat..... Be Seeing You, Chris

The game's started, and I found no thread! If one exists then this can be deleted, but otherwise, it's game time!

The Boston Red Sox's Grady Little models the new 2003 uniform for the start of the Major League Baseball Training season pre-season camps which begin February 9 and 10.