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Where Have You Gone, Sparky Lyle?

by Joe Sheehan

Q: How do the 3-1 game and the 10-7 game end within two minutes of one another?

A: When one of them involves the Yankees.

With the way the Yankees play every game, the increased commercial inventory and later start times in October, and Tony La Russa's preferences for playing matchups, I'll make the early prediction now that a Yankees/Cardinals series will included multiple games running past midnight and a media-driven furor over how "the children" don't get to see the World Series any longer.

It'll be more about guys who need to meet deadline and want to get to bed, but that's another column.

Yankees vs. Red Sox

The Yankees paid Jon Lieber $2.7 million on a two-year contract that expires at the end of their postseason. He made his money last night.

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