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...Yankees came back from a presumably insurmountable deficit, winning all three games in Atlanta, then beating the defending world champions 3-2 in Yankee Stadium Saturday night. This Series had all the elements of a true Fall Classic. There was the unlikely hero off the bench: Yankee pinch hitter Jim Leyritz clubbing a three-run homer off Mark Wohlers to tie the score in the eighth inning of Game 4. There was the unlikely goat: sure-handed Atlanta center fielder Marquis Grissom dropping a fly ball to set up the only run of Game 5. There were the nightly chess...
...trailing 6-0 after five. But the Yankees got three in the sixth, and reserve catcher Jim Leyritz tied it in the eighth with a three-run homer off Braves closer Mark Wohlers. And with two outs in the tenth, Steve Avery intentionally walked Bernie Williams to bring Boggs, pinch-hitting, to the plate. Charlie Hayes forced another run across on a Ryan Klesko error. The road win was New York's seventh straight. Perhaps George Steinbrenner has traded Kenny Rogers' soul to some baseball god. The $20M man has started three post-season games, all crucial...
...campaign laws of American politics are rigged these days, the most logical method of running a first-class campaign is to find a candidate who can pay for the entire thing himself without feeling a pinch. From the looks of the Democratic senatorial candidates this time around, the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee must have had roughly the same itinerary on candidate-recruiting trips as the special gifts coordinator for the Princeton alumni fund...
...INCH TO PINCH...
...Pinch the Grinch] is a tangible result, as opposed to [the resolution], 'The Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council thinks that human rights abuses are bad.' We would spend three weeks debating that," he says. "As if anyone needs to be told that human rights abuses...