Acckkk, Aaaccckkkk!

Boy. The Yankees are poised to upstage both Greg Norman in the 1996 Masters and the 1969 Cubs as the greatest CHOKE in sports history.

If the boys in pinstripes blow this game, the entire franchise history is shot. It won't matter how many pennants or World Series wins the club has amassed, they will always be the team that allowed, for the first time in the recorded history of any ball-sport (Hockey doesn't count), themselves to be beaten in a four game sweep after winning the first three games of a seven game series. They might as well move to Toronto. (I hear they have a stadium?)

The real reason I'm rooting for the Sox tonight is I want to see dueling riots. Boston will be set ablaze because the curse is broken and Ruth's ghost is dead and New York will obliterated for the same reasons.

UPDATE:

Yowch. 6-zip in the 2nd. Still a long way to go, but this can't be what Steinbrenner wanted to see this early.

UPDATE II:

And so it goes. 10-3. The best team won. $129 million beat $195 million. (Still the two highest payroll teams in all of the MLB.) Now. Anybody placing bets on who Steinbrenner fires? Cough, Cough, Stottlemyre, Cough, Cough