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Red Sox/Yankees News & Notes - 9/14
Published 9/14/2007 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
... Yankees are rolling, but Sox don’t yield [Boston Globe] ...

Hanging Tough
Published 9/14/2007 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
... September 14, 2007 Hanging Tough As the Yankees and Red Sox meet for their final series of the season, Gordon Edes looks for a term to describe this Boston club : So, what are we to say about a team when it doesn't collapse, fold, choke, fall apart, crumble, disintegrate, melt, break down, crash and burn, fizzle, flop, or fade? The language is rich in words to describe failure. The Red Sox have had most of those terms applied to them at times throughout their history. So where are the words to describe what these Sox of 2007 are doing, in the face of the best second half the Yankees have had since Joe Torre became manager in 1996? Somehow, "hanging on" doesn't quite cut it, not when history's most expensive team rolls into town on an 8-1 tear and has run off a record of 40-20 since the All-Star break, a .667 clip that conjures memories of ...

They're here
Published 9/14/2007 by Hart Bracken at The Soxaholix
... Look, Callaghan, this is actually an amicable call — Just wanted to say good luck in the series and may the best team win. ...

We move the Nighty Cap to the AM
Published 9/14/2007 by edwzipper at Sports Frog
... • Here is apro Red Sawx column heading into this weekend's series. Since it can't be Bucky Dent or Aaron Boone, who will it be this time? ...