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...opting out of the last three years of this $252 million contract. A-Rod is now a free agent, and if Yankee management keeps its promise not to pursue him, his pinstripe career is curtains. (Leave it to Boras, a man whose ego has no peer, to hijack the Sox win with A-Rod's news...
...Sox have a manager, Terry Francona, who failed at his prior stop as big-league skipper, but is now universally adored by his players. Doesn't he sound like Joe Torre, who had lost at all his previous managerial posts, but leaves the Yanks beloved like Yogi Berra? Young Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon saved three games in his first World Series, a performance reminiscent of Yankee reliever Mariano Rivera, perhaps the best post-season stopper of all time...
Slow down, a Sox fan might say. We've only won two Series in four seasons, while the Yanks won four in five years; now, that's one of those tiresome dynasties. But this Red Sox team run should have legs. "The difference between 2004 and 2007 is that this team is built to last," says veteran pitcher Tim Wakefield, who has played in Boston since 1995. "With the core of young guys and veterans who are still producing, this team will be doing special things for years...
...Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino famously called the Yankees "the Evil Empire" for spending cash to win World Series after World Series. But with a $143 million payroll, two Series trophies on his mantel and the promise of more to come, Lucchino is no Luke Skywalker...
Yankee comparisons, not surprisingly, make the Boston brass uneasy. "We don't quite have the resources they do," says Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein. The Yankees payroll hit $195 million this year, still comfortably ahead of Boston's figure. "I don't buy into it," he says. Lucchino, standing in Boston's champagne-splattered clubhouse, fended off all Yankee talk. "We aren't the old Yankees, new Yankees, anybody's Yankees," he says. "We ain't trying to be no Yankees...