boston is going down...
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Pro-sox journalism from the belly of the beast.
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Win or lose, this year's scruffy Red Sox team will go down in the books as one that managed to seriously get under the skin of the Yankees. And we don't just mean the bridge of Don Zimmer's nose, either. It's not often that you hear baseball owners discussing—let alone dissing—the sartorial habits of other clubs, yet before this series even started, there was George Steinbrenner blathering that the Yankees had to understand that they owed their fans not only by "how we play on the field," but "by the way we dress." The implication being, from King Turtleneck's angle at least, that even if they could play like champions, the Red Sox didn't look like champions. So there! Ê
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For their part, these Bostonians have worn their blue-collar image with both pride and irreverence—a combination that's perhaps more historically associated with the Bruins than the Red Sox, but which somehow suits this mostly ragtag bunch of (in the words of "Cowboy Up" Kevin Millar) "idiots who just go out and play baseball." Ê
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Millar, of course, was the one who led the way with the buzz cuts, going from looking like Harry Shearer in This Is Spinal Tap to looking like Harry Shearer in A Mighty Wind. Then again, as The Washington Post's Tom Boswell noted, you could think of the 2003 Beantown Boys as a kind of updated Animal House gang, with Steinbrenner their Dean Wormer. That would make Millar this frat's John Belushi—and turn Bernie Williams into Stephen Bishop. Think the Yankees carry guitar insurance? —Billy Altman Ê