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Boston Globe:
Sox-Yanks pitching matchups > Sox do it again > Wake Comments
were doctored > Robinson's legacy set in stone > Thumbs |
Boston Herald:
'Tek good in pinch > Heckuva first game > Cora corralled >
Schilling offers a far-from-Curt response > Chamberlain to miss
Sox |
ProJo:
Varitek's 9th inning homer fuels comeback > Ailing Cora could be
put on the DL > Schilling insists: I won't play for Yankees >
Wrapup |
Hartford Courant:
Farnsworth comes up big in Yankees win > ESPN settles with
Reynolds > Phillies beat Astros > Tigers rally past Twins |
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It's Red Sox vs. YankeeZZZzzzzz: Rivalry's Buzz Takes a Beating
38Pitches: 'Umm, no.' | Wilbur: Space Shot | Yankee Swap
Video: Big Papi Explains Reason for Hitting Woes
Feb 28, 2005:
"Talkin' Disgrace-Ball"
(To the tune of "Talkin' Baseball" ... with apologies to Terry Cashman.)
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Baseball season's coming,
And everybody's bumming
'bout steroid use by players in the game.
Now Jose's book is finally naming names
of cheaters and all those who share the blame.
(Chorus)
Talkin' Disgrace-Ball,
Canseco and McGwire,
Yes, Disgrace-Ball,
Bonds says, "You're a liar."
Pudge and Rafael say "Where's the proof?"
While homerun numbers shoot straight through the roof.
We're talkin' Barry, BALCO and the juice.
Oh, Sheffield was dreaming,
Didn't know what he was creaming,
And, Jason's sorry,
But, who knows for what?
McGuire's sticking needles in his butt.
Caminiti's dead,
Look at Barry's head,
Bud Selig says, "So what?"
(Chorus)
Talkin' Disgrace-Ball,
Just can't put out the fire,
Yes, Disgrace-Ball,
And Bonds says "You're a liar."
His homers will surpass the great Babe Ruth,
Hank Aaron surely wasn't this aloof,
We're talkin' BALCO, Barry and the juice.
Say-Hey … Say-Hey … Say-Hey,
Cheatin' Barry, BALCO and the juice
Go away … Go away … Go away …
By Bill Bingham (I'm a 52-year old, lifelong Yankee fan), Westerly, RI
 Blood
Feud, Part Two…
In the Big Inning, God created the Red Sox and the Yankees...
The genesis of this book lies in our love of baseball and our fascination with the relationship that exists between its two most colorful teams. We set out to create a fair and balanced look at the Red Sox-Yankees “rivalry.” But somewhere along the way, we gave up our role as creationists and allowed the book to evolve into a different sort of animal.
Originally, we were going to serve up platitude-laden pabulum on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two teams, always painfully careful to delineate the rich tradition of the competition and the deep and mutual respect that exists between the two great franchises. And then we sat down to write. It wasn’t long before we knew how the authors of the Bible must have felt. At some point they too must have realized that there is no way to give Good and Evil equal time and still sleep the sleep of the just.
It turns out that neither author of this book wanted to represent the Yankees point of view. In fact, neither of us could bring ourselves to write enough complimentary things about Steinbrenner’s team to fill the back of a matchbox, let alone half a book (the morning after the Red Sox lost to the Yankees in the 2003 ALCS, Jim Prime, one of this book’s authors, conducted a previously-scheduled radio interview from the ledge outside Room 745 of the Prince Edward Hotel in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; the host of the radio show eventually talked him down). It was a revelation. Besides, we rationalized, that balanced, politically correct perspective on the Red Sox-Yankees phenomenon has been given, and there are several books on the market that take the “high road.” It is a road paved with good intentions. These books speak of the “rivalry” in politically correct and antiseptic terms. We came to the realization that, for us at least, such an approach would ultimately be phony, and even hypocritical.
In fact, unless you were born in Idaho, or are currently sitting on the fence in downtown Purgatory, there is no balance to this rivalry. And that’s another thing. Who’s kidding whom? This is no rivalry. A rivalry is what happens between Pillsbury Bake-off contestants, or maybe Heinz and Campbell’s or Hertz and Avis. Or between tourist bureaus in Maine and Massachusetts arguing who has the best fall foliage. No, this is no rivalry. This is a %$&*# feud. This is a duel to the finish, a knock ’em down, drag ’em out, survival-of-the-fittest cage match full of animosity, hatred, jealousy, pettiness and rancor. (God, that felt good!)
This is the unvarnished story of two teams that are scant miles apart geographically but light years apart philosophically. It is about Red Sox Nation and The Evil Empire. It is—not to put too fine a point on it—about Good vs. Evil.
Damn Yankees was a play about a guy who made a deal with the devil to ensure that his team—the Washington Senators (ha!)—finally beat the Yankees. That notion is almost blasphemous. Devilish deals are done by the Yankees and not to them.
As young baseball fans, and certainly over the intervening years, these writers occasionally pondered whether God was a Yankees fan, maybe even whether He hated the Boston Red Sox. How else could mere mortals explain the Yankees’ miraculous success story and the Biblical proportions of the Red Sox’ ineptitude? Year after year the Bosox suffered baseball’s version of famine, plague and pestilence while the Yankees were perennial visitors to that Garden of Eden known as the World Series. By the 1960s our suspicion had hardened into deep conviction—a conviction that only very recently we have rejected. We now believe. God may have switched teams for a while, but He is now a Red Sox fan. He watches them, He roots for them, and He even occasionally intercedes on their behalf—not on the field of course. He doesn’t cause a Red Sox player to jump higher (what Manny Ramirez did to rob the Yankees’ Miguel Cairo of a home run at Yankee Stadium last year was entirely above board). That kind of divine intercession would be wrong, and God is, above all else, fair. Once in a while a Red Sox player may do something that appears miraculous, but it is not a true miracle by God’s high standards. And He would never strike a Yankee dead or anything like that. The most He would contribute would be to ask the umpires to confer on a call in order to get it right. In the past, He didn’t even intervene to do that. He allowed mortals to make mistakes that robbed us year after year. So, as you can see, our lapse of faith was understandable, and hopefully forgivable.
Nevertheless, it was His fondest wish to have His Red Sox win the World Series. He also wants world peace, universal health care, the end of reality TV, a solution to those vexing problems in the Middle East, and nuclear nonproliferation. And maybe a little more respect for His environment and the natural world He gave us. Until the fall of 2004, all of these objectives seemed equally unlikely to be achieved.
God bends over backward to be neutral, but we now know that He’s pulling for the Sox. Somewhere up there in those Sky Boxes in the clouds, he’s sitting with Cy Young and Jimmie Foxx and Joe Cronin and Ted Williams and other saintly, celestial Sox and He’s watching the innings play out. Once in awhile He even visits Fenway, sitting near the Red Sox dugout in a seat once occupied by superfan Lib Dooley. He pretty much keeps quiet, just orders a single Fenway Frank and a large Coke and observes. You can tell it’s Him because He never participates in the wave and He covers His ears during some of the ruder chants. He is uncomfortable with the presence of Wally and other graven images (although ironically, He always got a perverse kick out of the New Jersey Devils mascot). His favorite player is David Ortiz, although His Son appreciates Johnny
Damon in the same way that Jimmy Stewart used to grudgingly admire the
work of Rich Little.
How do we know all this? Faith mostly…
Faith? What does baseball have to do with faith? And is faith enough to endure an 86-year draught? Have the Yankees really committed all seven deadly sins? Find out next week, in our final
Boston Dirt Dogs exclusive excerpt from Blood Feud: The Red Sox, the Yankees, and the Struggle
of Good versus Evil. And to get the full story, pick up your copy of
Blood Feud, available this March at fine bookstores everywhere and online
at
www.rounderbooks.com.
Feb 26, 2005:
Feb 25, 2005:
Just Wear It New York
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The Pinstripers have adopted a new marketing approach for the 2005 season. Nike just put up this huge billboard on 7th Avenue across from Madison Square Garden. (Hey Mariano, you look better with The Gimp mask on)
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The Most Moronic Campaign Ever
Feb 24, 2005:
"I Love Walkah"
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Can You Hear Them Now?
Celtics Take Giant Step and Bring Antoine Walker Home
Breaking News: Paul Pierciaparra™ Reportedly Cracks a Genuine Smile
Blood
Feud, Part One…
Game
Three, 2004 ALCS — The Lowest of the Low
Final
score: Yankees 19, Red Sox 8
The
Yankees had administered a crushing, demoralizing 19-8 thrashing in front of
what remained of a thoroughly disheartened Fenway Park crowd and what remained
of an equally deflated TV audience that extended throughout Red Sox Nation, from
Nova Scotia to Nantucket and well beyond. Over the three games, the Yankees had
a team batting average of .377, while the Red Sox pitching staff was embarrassed
by an ERA of 11.52. The Red Sox were teetering on the brink of a humiliating
Series sweep. By the time the final out was recorded, Fenway Park was all but
empty. Those disillusioned fans that remained showered their former heroes with
vitriol that would almost have made Yankee Stadium look welcoming.
The latest
battle in the ancient blood feud between the two venerable American League
franchises from New York and Boston seemed destined to end with a whimper and
not a wallop.
The talk
shows in Boston were alive with invective, venom, finger pointing, and
defeatism. There were calls for Terry Francona’s head on a platter. He was being
called another Grady Little, a name tantamount to Benedict Arnold in its infamy
throughout these benighted colonies. In New York, radio stations and tabloids
were crowing loud and long about yet another Boston choke . . . like the one in
2003, the one in 1986, the one in 1978 . . . and on and on. The only Sox fans
heard from, though, were those who still had enough energy left.
Most fans
were beaten down, subdued. There was no chance now.
Again and
again, we were reminded that no team, ever, had come back from a 0-3 deficit to
win the final four games. For the second year in a row, it looked like the
Yankees would whip the Red Sox and go on to represent the American League in the
World Series, but this time without even a respectable challenge by the Sox.
And so
Game Four of the 2004 American League Championship Series was poised like a
rusty guillotine above the bowed necks of Red Sox Nation. With the New York
Yankees leading the ALCS three games to none—the last game a disheartening,
embarrassing, soul-destroying slaughter in front of their own fans at Fenway
Park—the only thing remaining was the final, fateful blow. At least the end
would be quick.
It wasn’t
as if the Red Sox had not lost before, but they had always managed to make it
excruciatingly close, to come within five outs—or even one strike—of victory.
This time was embarrassing. Humiliating. This time it was nothing but a rout.
Could anything conceivably be worse for a Sox fan? We’re used to defeat, but
this was shameful. 19-8. A sinking feeling that could sink no lower. Boston had
bottomed out. We were reminded time and time again that no team had ever come
back from such depths. We were condemned to another long winter, and another
spring and summer of “19-18” taunts and T-shirts. The next season would find us
all bewildered, groping to find any semblance of self-respect as Sox fans. At
least there was some healing over the months after 2003’s Game Seven. If the
2004 Sox were swept by the Evil Empire, the wound was going to sting and fester
and might never heal. If it scarred over at all, the scars were going to run
deep.
How did it
all come to this? Let’s step back and review a little of the history between
these two teams, before resuming the story of the 2004 American League pennant
race…
What
forces drove two grown men to write an entire book on the Sox/Yankees rivalry
from the Sox point of view? Is God a Red Sox Fan? Find out next week, in another
Boston Dirt Dogs exclusive excerpt from Blood Feud: The Red Sox, the Yankees, and the Struggle
of Good versus Evil. And to get the full story, pick up your copy of
Blood Feud, available this March at fine bookstores everywhere and online
at
www.rounderbooks.com.
Feb 22, 2005:
Feb 21, 2005:
Feb 19, 2005:
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OPENING DAY HAS A NICE RING TO IT!
Sox Three Ring Circus is Over
Brass Ring Decision Has Been Made
Internet Tail Wags the Dog Again
2.21.05: Boston Dirt Dogs has learned that Fenway Park will host a World Championship Red Sox ring ceremony on Opening Day when the Olde Towne Team faces the New York Yankees.
Owner Tom Werner had told WEEI's Dennis and Callahan this morning that Charles "Lord of the Rings" Steinberg would make the decision on the ring ceremony and that "Ring-gate would go on for a few more days." But it was Werner who was instrumental in finalizing the decision to have a ring ceremony at Fenway on April 11. The California-based owner had been on record as saying he "was looking forward to the ring ceremony on April 11" shortly after the Sox won the Series last October. Late Sunday night, Dr. Steinberg was on CBS4's Sports Final still dancing around the issue, blaming fans who he thought misinterpreted Jeff Horrigan's crystal clear column in the Herald last week. Steinberg continued to hide behind The Red Sox Foundation fundraising idea (Don't we do enough as a fanbase? Aren't we the most generous?) as the reason to change gears and have a separate ring ceremony. Chief Operating Officer Mike Dee was actually the first one to champion this idea in a Red Sox fan brainstorming and feedback session at Fenway Park back on February 10. (Remy Report message board link) A separate ceremony may also take place which will fund The Foundation after the home opener.
Ultimately it was the hundreds of angry phone calls that flooded the Red Sox offices last week that drove ownership to step in and get the ring ceremony back to its original scheduled date. Curt Schilling and the players also stepped up this week to let their voices be heard that they wanted to have the ceremony in front of their fans on Opening Day at Fenway. The official announcement from the team should come Tuesday or Wednesday.
"Rings Will Be Ready for Opener"
Josten Denies Henry Claim Rings Won't Be Ready
Big Dog Not Expected to Get Ring Despite Yeoman's Work on Nomar, Pedro, D-Lowe, and World Series Ball PR Campaigns on Behalf of Organization
No Progress Made in Ring Talks
Nation, Sox to Meet on Monday
Steinberg Intermediary
Negotiates with Boston Dirt Dogs to "Call off the Dogs"
Special to Boston Dirt Dogs:
Late Friday afternoon, Red Sox EVP Charles Steinberg contacted a highly-placed
intermediary to negotiate with Boston Dirt Dogs in an attempt to halt the
hundreds of protest phone calls on BDD's behalf that had besieged and crippled
operations at the Red Sox Yawkey Way offices. While the hired gun negotiator
revealed that the good Dentist regrets his initial decision to change the ring
ceremony date in deference to the Yankees, and Big Dog ensured him that inciting
the Nation was nothing personal, those talks broke down at 6:00 p.m. Friday
evening without resolution as Big Dog said "I'll make Bob Goodenow look like a
"yes man" before this Nation rolls over for the New York Yankees."
Red Sox Plant Supermodel Ambassadors at Fall
River Trophy Celebration to Break Down Big Dog
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In a bigger surprise than the NHL
talks being revived, Ring talks resumed again later last night due to an act
that Big Dog described as "dirty pool." Upon his arrival at the Fall River
Maplewood Babe Ruth Baseball League’s annual awards banquet and World Series
Trophy celebration in Swansea, MA last night, Big Dog was immediately greeted by
banquet organizer and Babe Ruth league president Norman Yelle who had a message
that "there's some people from the Red Sox who would like to meet you." As Big
Dog wandered over to the Red Sox table he was greeted by two Red Sox supermodel
ambassadors who immediately exclaimed "so you're the one who's been driving all
the calls" that nearly shut-down the Red Sox offices on Thursday and Friday.
Both representatives said they had spent the better part of Thursday and Friday
answering and returning calls from fans angry about kowtowing to the New York
Yankees. Knowing that the two blond bombshell ambassadors would be BDD
kryptonite, Steinberg's strategy was ultimately successful as Big Dog agreed to
"call off the dogs" in the Nation until Wednesday next week with the hopes that
the two sides could strike a deal. BDD asked for the concession that Steinberg
stop pretending that the website doesn't exist, as he has for three years, and
stop attributing the BDD driven activity to radio stations and random emailers.
Big Dog also foolishly agreed not to post pictures of the two special agents on
the "popular fan website" (Thanks Dan Shaughnessy... that nameless reference in
your column today never would have happened if Champ were still alive) as
the Sox starlets indicated that it was against department policy for their pictures to
appear on "popular fan websites." A lousy policy Dr. Charles if you ask us.
Stop Calling the Red Sox Front Offices Until
Further Notice
See above.
John Henry Don't Know Much About Red Sox
History
The venerable Red Sox owner, citing
popular internet message board fodder, asks a tired Nation "When was the last
time a team gave out the rings on Opening Day?" Well John, Red Sox Nation is not
concerned with the practice of other teams who chose to hand out their rings on
other random dates in order to boost attendance and pump television ratings. The
Boston Red Sox have a tradition of handing out their championship rings on
Opening Day. Respected Red Sox broadcaster Joe Castiglione confirmed Friday on
WEEI's Dale Arnold show that the Red Sox tradition is to hand out rings at the
home opener. Joe Castig witnessed the celebration and ceremony on the field for
the home opener on April 10, 1987 when the team handed out the American League
championship rings prior to the first pitch against the Toronto Blue Jays. John Henry also
went on in a popular newspaper column to make this amazing statement which shows he
ain't from around here "I don't think it's necessary to do anything in anybody's
face," said the polite owner. "Just to try to do something like that ...I can't
imagine feeling any worse than we did in 2003, except for the way they felt in
2004. I think 2003 plus 2004 equals a very interesting 2005. We still haven't
finalized the ring decision. I have no idea if they will be ready." Yikes.
That's some scary thoughts there John. Don't even know where to begin on that.
Regardless of the fact that a huge majority of Red Sox Nation has no problem
rubbing the Yankees noses in it for once, and Dr. Charles did say they would do
what the majority of the fans wanted, THIS ISN'T ABOUT THE YANKEES, it's about
what you said you were going to do, i.e. give out the rings on opening day,
which is well documented and was well-publicized on broadcast outlets (not everything is a link), contrary to some beliefs. The dugout cop was expecting his ring on April 11. A MLB/RedSox.com article/announcement last December, whatever that site is, was under the impression, as everyone else was, that rings were to be handed out on April 11, regardless of the opponent. And
it's about following Red Sox tradition, not what any other teams have done to
raise additional revenue or sell out their stadiums.
Deep Throat Tells BDD: "Follow the Money"
As usual, this is about money
according to Deep Throat.
Brass Ring Position Unchanged
At the timing of this update on
Saturday afternoon, an agreement had not been reached, and no major progress was
made today, although the sides agreed to continue the discourse through their respective representatives on Monday. We expect Charles Steinberg ("others had these other ideas, it's not
about the Yankees") and John Henry ("rings might be late and we can't make the
Yankees feel bad") to actually get on the same page by next Tuesday. Then we'll
see where we're at. Former WEEI talkmaster Bob Neumeier, vacationing in Tuscany with
Angie Dickenson, also said it would be "beyond the pale" not to give out the
Rings on Opening Day as had been planned since last October.
Ring it For...
WEEI callers were also
overwhelmingly against moving the ceremony as Ring talk dominated the airwaves
all day. And if it is about the Yankees, longtime caller Paulie from New Bedford
said that the Red Sox should give out the Rings "for Bill Lee who was
sucker-punched by Mickey Rivers in Yankee Stadium... for Jose Offerman's phantom
tag in Yankee Stadium... for Ted Williams who was forced to take a back seat to
Joe DiMaggio..." With apologies to SoSH, who do you want to Ring it For? |
Rose Knows Rings
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100 years young Red Sox fan Rose Bolger, who remembers the 1918 championship, told Boston Dirt Dogs last night at Fall River's Babe Ruth League Banquet that the Sox "need to give out the rings on Opening Day." She also called Pedro "a dirty player."
Pedro Being Pedro
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Martinez Late for Day One of Mets Workouts
Boston Dirt Dogs has learned that former Red Sox diva Pedro Martinez showed up late to the first New York Mets spring workout. First-year Mets manager Willie Randolph learned first-hand who will run the show in New York this season. Randolph "was stomping around looking for him in the clubhouse" before practice, but the Prima Donna was nowhere to be found.
Feb 18, 2005:
2.19 Update: Popular Newspaper Columnist Picks Up on This Theme Today
Sox-Obsessed Yankees to Change Sinatra Song at The Stadium for 2005
"New York, New York" to be replaced with
"I've Got You, Under My Skin"
The Yankees Probably Don't Even Know Sinatra, born in Hoboken, Was a Dodger Fan His Entire Life. First Brooklyn, then LA.
Didn't the Yankees Camp Open a Couple of Days Ago?
Feb 17, 2005:
RING-GATE
Sox Now Admit Moving Ceremony in
Deference to Yankees Was Lousy Idea
Red Herring Alert! Rainmaker Blames Ring Makers
New John Henry Spin Puts Blame on Ring Makers Timetable
(Apparently Dr. Charles Didn't Get the Memo)
Revenue Streaming: Cheeseball Player Wannabe Rings Were Ready to Go in 45 Seconds, But Player Rings Might Not Be Ready for Opener
Sox to Reconsider Having Ring Ceremony on Opening Day
Charles Steinberg Dances Like Deney Terrio Around Ring-gate
Brass Will Give in to Public Pressure,
Over 500 Calls Received to Overturn Chump Move
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The Dentist Gets Drilled on The Big Show
Doctor Charles Steinberg on WEEI's The Big Show: "Oh it's all good things, the question that Jeff (Horrigan) had called me with yesterday, he had heard that there were some thoughts, um, circulating about having the ring ceremony take place at an event other than opening day. And I told him I had heard those thoughts as well. People have made suggestions, some have said (read: him) 'why don't you have an event at Fenway so that not only the 35,000 people lucky enough (read: to get the magic scalper links) to get opening day tickets get to enjoy a celebration where you would raise the flag, but 35,000 more could make it say a fundraiser for the Red Sox Foundation and do the rings in a separate ceremony?', so that's one idea to come our way. One of the advantages to that is if you did it before April 3rd, um, it would be a decisive punctuation mark on what is 2004 so that you start 2005, uh you know, fresh, and raise the curtain... now another idea had come forth that said 'why don't you make it uh a high-end fundraising dinner for the Red Sox Foundation?' and you could do that as well, but when Jeff and I were talking about doing it opening day he said 'are you at all concerned about doing it in front of the Yankees?', well we're not concerned at all about doing it on opening day or doing it in front of the Yankees the way we would do it I believe would be full of decorum and respect which I think is what the Red Sox...(Buck thankfully interrupts here with "Charles, Charles") ought to continue to stand for."
Steve Buckley has Bingo: "Charles, don't confuse fundraising with fan allegiance and so forth because I think Red Sox fans are among the best in baseball when it comes to fundraising as is evidenced by the support of the Jimmy Fund over the years (Steinberg: "Amen") and what concerns us and I'm willing to bet 99% of our listeners right now is that this is something Red Sox fans have been waiting for for 86 years adn I don't think a single Red Sox fan really has one iota of interest in decorum and dispatching and anything like that. They just want to see those rings and they want to see it happen in front of the Yankees. And I guarantee you that Red Sox fans are in unison on this topic."
Steinberg: "Well that was the original thought. That's the plan that I've been sketching out in the offseason, and I think it's a great one. I can envision that ceremony and I was getting as excited as anybody who might have lived here um for not only their whole life but through generations. So that was the starting point. It was just when the question came, might you take it to a separate event, I said yes, we've heard those requests and there's been some early simple debate about it but I think that all of those who feel strongly in our organization we all haven't been in the same place at the same time for quite a while and I think we will be down here in this coming week but you want John, you want Tom, you want Larry, you want Theo, Mike Dee, all together, cause, Meg Vaillencourt, who is the Executive Director of the Foundation, put everybody together and what you want to do is that which will best resonate with the desires of Red Sox Nation (Thank God Glenn interrupts). And if you say they're in unison that they would like it most on Opening Day then I think that's going to be a very, very strong pull."
(blah blah, more decorum, less decorum "emit emotions scenarios")
Steve Buckley has Bingo: "How is there any measure of decorum being lost by having a ring ceremony which these players deserve and it is the home opener which is the proper forum for these things, it just so happens that the Yankees by the luck of the draw happen to be the team lined up on the third base line?"
Steinberg: "Right, let me correct what might be a misperception. I wasn't referring to decorum as a reason to not have the ring ceremony opening day. I think having it opening day is great. It's just that you and when you set out these options of how to do it opening day, one is where the Yankees have no choice but to see, the other one which they can avert their eyes from actually gives the fans a longer opportunity to give a soulful ovation." (But Jeff Horrigan's piece quotes when, not how: Leery of appearing that they are taking their success and rubbing it in the collective face of the New York Yankees, the Red Sox are leaning against presenting World Series rings to players prior to the home opener at Fenway Park on April 11. "There's a degree of decorum you'd like to show and a degree of respect you'd like to demonstrate," Steinberg said. ``When it is done, it will be done tastefully.")
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