Article: A blueprint for success; Red Sox doing it the Yankee way.(Sports)

Byline: HOWARD BRYANT

A week from baseball's winter meetings, the Red Sox and Yankees both have struck hard. Curt Schilling gives the Red Sox the best starting trio in baseball, while Gary Sheffield makes the New York lineup more dangerous than the record-breaking, 961-run Red Sox of last year. Nobody can wait for next year, even though 2003 is less than six weeks over.

Such mano a mano circling between the two superpowers makes for a fine and easy script, especially during the less bombastic back story of winter. Theo Epstein, the Red Sox GM, was lauded for making a seismic deal, and the Yankees responded with the kind of muscular parry that is their ...

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