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-94 mph fastballs just don't cut it against the Yankees- or you need to have that cannon from your commercial surgically attached permanently.

 Dice-man... your ERA is now above 7. Do you think you could maybe pitch past the first inning without giving up 4 or 5 runs? Starting you every fifth day is more of a gamble than Wake's knuckleball fluttering or not that day.

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Red Sox vs. Yankees. Celtics vs. Cavaliers in game 3 of a 1-1 series. Bruins vs. Flyers in possible series sweep.

There are so many story lines for this Friday night in Boston Sports.

Red Sox: You just swept the Angels. The Angels have problems of their own, being staked to a 4-0 lead after the ist inning thanks to the Dice-man's proclivity to gamble on his pitches. I understand that the Japanese strike-zone is different than MLB...but Dice-dude, you've been here 3 years now. I know you can speak English. You have to at least understand it, or else what exactly is V-mart and his own heavy accent conveying to you when he goes to chat on the mound after you walk 3 straight? What does John Farrell say while the umpire walks all the way out to the mound to break the conversation up. That's always a great way to get on the Ump's good side. Throw a ton of balls, and then make the Ump actually walk the 60'6" to the pitchers mound. In any event, the Sox offense again came up huge. The Angels certainly helped, but at this point we'll take whatever help we can get. On a 4 game win-streak, Bring on the

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can view -- pretty rare situation to find. 

So what's my take? To be specific, I prefer the Yankees' wedding bouquet celebration to Milwaukee's bowling pin topple. The bouquet thing is subtle in comparison; the toppling pins were a little much for me. I pitched for 15 years of my life, and I know I'd hate it if an opposing team celebrated in that fashion. I think a celebration like that has a home in the NFL (a la the Baltimore Ravens of the past), unfortunately football's hierarchy is so uptight that it cut all of the fun out of scoring.

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e cheers, and eventually into a stirring rendition of one of Red Sox Nation's favorite tunes: "Yankees Suck! Yankees Suck! Yankees Suck!"

All-in-all, a trip to Tropicana Field for a Sox-Rays showdown is a lot of fun. You are guaranteed to see two teams that are pretty evenly matched (for as long as the Rays can afford their young talent, and until the

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dings will be similar to this:
Tampa Bay Rays 96-66
Boston Red Sox 94-68
New York Yankees 91-71
Toronto Blue Jays 83-79
Baltimore Orioles 69-93

Whether Red Sox or

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9-game trip against Baltimore, Toronto, and the Yankees. If we don't have a winning trip, our season could be lost.

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ll prove to be a TV networks dream with 2 red-hot division rivalries agaisnt the Devil Rays and the Yankees-- a combined 7 games on the road. After the fireworks that exploded during the Sox last series against Tampa Bay 8 weeks ago, all eyes will on Tropicana field at 7:05 PM Monday night.

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was all those reasons combined.Who knows why?  The fact is they lost.  What's worse, the Yankees won.  As a matter of fact everyone in the American League East won last night.&n

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p;              NL Playoff:

East- Yankees                                                         East- Phillies

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belli  over to Fenway from Logan...just in time to catch Wake for a game against the Yankees. What drama? Super Dougie! The Sox won! That's great.  But to me we were still getting back a guy who could have held the bat upside down and had more hits.  But he was Wakefield's personal catcher.

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The title (Patriots, 34 - Giants, 20) is not a prediction. It is the result of the remarkably life-like experience of playing a board/dice game known as Pizza Box Football, published by On the Line Game company out of California. Each year, at this time, the company offers owners of the game special gaming charts which tailor the game experience to the specific strengths and weaknesses of the two teams involved in the Super Bowl and ask that participants report their results on the company Web site ( www.pizzaboxfootball.com).

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yet another chapter in what has to be the most storied rivalry in all of major league sports - Sox-Yankees.

It's important to note, however, that until the Sox won their championship in 2004, it wasn't actually much of a rivalry. Baseball writer, Dan Shaugnessy, writing in a book, titled The Rivals - The Boston Red Sox vs. The New York

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ve crawled out of his grave and throttled me back to death with him, if I'd opted to follow the Yankees, so by default, I started tracking the Mets. And got to like the most recent reincarnation of this National League team; my first NL experience, really. I found myself, as well, tuning in to Yankee games that put me in a position of rooting for a team (any team) to beat them; an odd sort of mind-set to have when you're watching a baseball game. Not rooting for a team to win, but hoping that one of them will lose.

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