Bronx & Beans

Yankees fans are already familiar with the work of Dr. Craig Morgan. (Don't remember the name? Well, see above.)

Which is why it was kind of funny when Morgan, the same man who made it possible for buddy Curt Schilling to break a million New York hearts that night in 2004, started speculating recently that the veteran pitcher might consider moving to the Bronx in 2009.

Suggesting that the Red Sox blew it by not allowing Schilling to have shoulder surgery before putting the veteran pitcher/Yankee killer on the 60-day DL, Morgan said maybe, just maybe, Schilling might be open to switching sides in the rivalry next year. "It's my opinion that he's (Schilling) angry enough that it's entirely conceivable, even though he's 40 years old, it's entirely conceivable that he will have the operation, rehab, and pitch for the Yankees next year," he said on ESPN radio.

How delicious! The man who once said there was nothing more enjoyable "than making 55,000 people from New York shut up" cheered by the same New York fans who were fickle enough to accept Clemens, Boggs and Damon?

The same guy who is so firmly inside the heads of Yankee fans that they started to find VINDICATION last year in this comical idea that his sock was actually covered in ketchup, suddenly mentoring young Kennedy, Hughes and Wang?

Except, of course, that Schilling says it's all garbage."Me wearing pinstripes, regardless of what point of the season or my career it would have been, is not an option," Schilling said on WEEI in Boston this morning. "It's not an option. Never has been an option."

Curt expounds more on the subject in his must-read blog, 38 Pitches.

Anyway, in the spirit of our once-and-future ace, and since our Bronx guys were such good sports when the Sox took last weekend's series, we're willing to float our own bet for the quickie series in the Bronx Wednesday and Thursday.

If the Yanks win both, I'll suck it up and throw on your Jeter jersey. But if the Sox win both, well, I see Heinz ketchup on your socks Friday morning. As a tribute to Curt.

The stains will come out in the wash. And if they don't, you can bury the soiled socks somewhere in the Bronx.

--Dennehy