NY Times grasping at straws to somehow get their beloved Red Sox in the game

"A.L. East to Far East: Yankees Extend Rivalry"

Another phony NY Times, headline, 11/29/06--This to describe the Yankees successful bid for the right to speak to Japanese pitcher Ogawa. Any source you choose, there's no contest. The Yankees are far and away the favorite in Japan. It's the Red Sox who are trying to get in the game there. But the Times won't tell you that.

• In another Yankee story this day, a well-known but ignored fact noted by Murray Chass:
  
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• "Every $1 the Yankees spend on a new contract costs them $1.40. That’s their tax rate — 40 percent. No one else has it."11/29/06