10/27/2003 10:50:00 AM by Rob

Congrats to the Fighting Fish!

The Marlins won the World Series, and the good news for us extends beyond the fact that any day the Yankees lose is a good one.

When the Yanks lose, their owner flips his lid, and starts thrashing about wildly trying to make his team "invincible".

Now, the key to all this for us is to somehow end up next spring with Sosa wearing black pinstripes, and Vlad Guerrero wearing blue ones, and not the other way around.

But there really isn't a way I can see the Cubs outbidding Steinbrenner for Vlad. And, even if we did, what if Sosa decides to pick up his option, then vetoes any trade we try to make with him.

Then we're stuck with Vlad and Sosa. Ohhhhh, NOOOOOO....

I honestly think that the three absolutes for this winter are: there will be death, there will be taxes, and Vlad Guerrero will be a Yankee. I wish, just for once, that we could beat the Yankees at their own game.

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