We interrupt this regularly scheduled silence to bring you some unedited thoughts on tonight's Game 7 between the Yankees and Red Sox.

Will whoever kidnapped Jason Giambi and replaced him with a pale imitation of Reggie Jackson (with Jackson's propensity for strikeouts and greater difficulties against lefthanded pitching, but without the clutch homers) please return him to the Stadium for tonight?

Will the Yankees continue to make Boston's bullpen look like a bunch of Mariano Riveras?

Will Boone or Soriano ever meet a slider in the lefthanded batters' box they don't like?

And finally, WILL JETER, SORIANO OR WILLIAMS EVER CATCH A !&*#%&!ING BALL?

Sorry about that.

I am feeling a lot like Billy Beane in Moneyball, who gets so worked up watching the games that he circles the stadium in his car rather than do so. I might have to find some important errands to do. Though I might be a danger to other drivers on the road...

I correctly predicted last year's World Series outcome (I won't mention that it was my first correct prediction ever). My unpublished prediction for the ALDS & ALCS were the Yankees in 3 and 6, respectively. Since they just took one game more in the ALDS, I'll assume the non-pattern will carry over tonight.

Yankees, 5-3. Four runs off Pedro, one off Wakefield. No fights.

The first man out of the Yankees' bullpen before the 7th inning will be Wells. Contreras will be allowed one baserunner with a multi-run lead.

Only don't expect me to actually watch all of it.

(At least I'm not a Cubs fan. That was bad.)