Ziegel: Forget Bosox, Bombers must resort to catching Rays

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Baseball Today: Friday, July 18
Published 7/18/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... ." The headline on colleague Vic Ziegel's column says the Yanks should forget about catching the Red Sox and focus on overtaking the Rays for the wild card, though I've gone over it three times and don't see where Ziegel wrote anything of the sort; what I see is Ziegel saying it's going to be tough for the Yankees to catch either one of them. His point is that the Yanks don't have the pitching, and now, says the New York Post's Joel Sherman, ...

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Published 7/18/2008 by D&A at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... that although the Yanks aren't out of it, they aren't where they'd like to be. Along those lines, Vic Ziegel writes today that the Yanks need to focus on catching the Rays , not the first-place Sox. We're fine with however the club can get into the postseason. There's no shame in the Wild Card -- there are going to be a bunch of other teams on the outside looking in, wishing they could have squeaked in as the Wild Card. Kevin Kernan ...