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After they won 98 games, including playoffs, George Steinbrenner called his New York Yankees a sad failure, which tells you all you need to know about the 2006 Red Sox. The Sox were 11 games worse than a sad failure.
The Yankees fell on their faces in the first round of the playoffs. The Red Sox didn’t hold on nearly that long. They went belly-up about a month-and-a-half earlier.
Maybe you forget. It was a five-game series. At Fenway. Everything on the line. The Sox began the series 1 games behind New York and ended it 6 1/2 back. Worse yet: Manny didn’t even get Jeter’s error switched to a hit. It was just a lousy weekend all around.

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