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Yankees' coddling of Joba out of control

Wallace Matthews

Newsday columnist Wallace Matthews

Matthews writes on professional sports, with a specialty in professional

The Yankees are an organization that thinks it can control everything, from the media to the climate. Did you know the dugouts in the new Stadium are air-conditioned?

And they are trying their damnedest to control the career of Joba Chamberlain, the prize bull in their stable, to the point that you're surprised they even allow him to knot his own necktie.

But there are circumstances...

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