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Lupica: Yanks just not good or tough enough
Lupica: Yanks just not good or tough enough
This season, despite a roster in flux, the Red Sox find a way to hang in there in August. The Yankees can't even play .500 baseball in August, after getting to 13 games over .500 the last week of July and getting to within 3 games of the Rays.
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Baseball Today: Tuesday, September 2
Projo Sox Blog — ... GET REAL: But it doesn't really matter, says the Daily News' Mike Lupica; he doesn't think the Yanks are good enough or tough enough. ...

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.600 is nice, but a little late
New York Yankees Fan Blog — ... as being happy about his trade only to help his ability to sign a big contract in the offseason; we say that, even if there's truth to that, it's a little unfair. It's not as though Pudge traded himself. By way of praising the Red Sox, Mike Lupica tells us what we already know: the Yanks just aren't good enough .

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