Article: Red Sox Nation tries diplomacy with Yanks' new Boss.(Sports)

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The Boston Herald
Article date:
March 3, 2008
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Byline: MICHAEL SILVERMAN

FORT MYERS - Yankees vs. Red Sox, a rivalry that has been pretty much on ice since 2004, flared up yesterday with the owners verbally jousting.

By the sounds of it, there will be mud - and plenty of it - this season.

After the Yankees' new Boss, Hank Steinbrenner, complained about "what a bunch of (expletive)" Red Sox Nation is, Sox principal owner John Henry responded by killing Steinbrenner with kindness.

He's adopting him as one of his own - an offer Steinbrenner has already rejected.

"I'm a big Hank fan," Henry wrote in an e-mail. "Just to ensure he knows how cool Red Sox Nation is, (Saturday) ...

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