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April 24, 2004
WANNA SEE A GROWN MAN'S HEAD EXPLODE?
You just might, if the Red Sox beat the Yankees Sunday, thus completing a three game sweep of the Yankees by the Sox -- in the Bronx.
As a Sox fan, even though winning 5 of 6 (possibly 6 of 7) from New York early on is something I'm very happy with, I am smart enough to realize that it's very early, and that anything can happen this season -- there are still 144 games to be played, and it's far too early to be drawing anything other than temporary satusfaction from anything that happens this month.
But George Steinbrenner's not that smart. If his team loses 6 of 7 to -- and gets swept at home by -- the Red Sox, Georgie Warbucks will go into an utter, frothing, spewing, crzed panic. He will seethe and boil over and do something stupid... make a dumb trade or monkey with his roster or his manager even worse than usual. And short of winning the World Series, I can think of nothing in baseball that would give me greater pleasure than watching Steinbrenner burst the capillaries in his eyeballs while they bulge out of their sockets, as he throws a massive tantrum that we can only hope will cost his team its ability to compete.
Way to go, Red Sox!
