LEADING WITH MY CHIN:

All is right in my world today. I just watched my beloved Red Sox beat the snot out of the Yankees on television during the past two nights and realized for the first time in about fifteen years, there is not one Yankee player that I have any sentimental feelings for. I am free to hate on them without any second thoughts.

Back in '95 the Yankees weren't doing so well. But they signed Tony Fernandez to play shortstop and I was a big Tony Fernandez fan. It was during that year that I became aware that there were a few Yankees that I actually liked. For some strange reason I liked Paul O'Neill; I liked Tino Martinez; I liked Bernie Williams. I began to wonder if I was getting soft in my advancing years.

I have spent my whole life hating the Yankees, and this