They’ll tell you it’s a best-of-three series, but it’s not. The whole season comes down to tonight. This is the whole reason you trade for Garrett Crochet: To beat Yankees offseason acquisition Max Fried at his own game, in his own stadium, on a beautiful night in New York.

I cannot stress that last part enough. I’m currently just across the river in a small town along the New Jersey border. If I walk to get pizza, it’s from the Garden State. This is as solidly Yankees territory as you’re going to find in the world, and it’s idyllic right now. It is the actual calm before the metaphorical storm.

And, for what it’s worth, I don’t feel a bit of dread. The Yankees and Sox have switched places when it comes to offseason heebie-jeebies from the last time our boys found themselves in this posi

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