Yankees To Test FortyMeter

In early October, the ThirtyMeter picked the Red Sox to win the World Series over the Cubs in 6 games. In late October, the boa.com server was flooded by angry emails from bettors cursing the ThirtyMeter. By November, the ThirtyMeter had promised never to make sports predictions again.

Now, word from the paper of record suggests that at least one baseball team may have outgrown the ThirtyMeter anyway. Of the Yankees' six offseason pickups, five are over 35. They'll join six over-35 holdovers to make next year's damn Yankees Damn Old.

This is all very good news for Book of Ages because while the ThirtyMeter has only a passing interest in sports, the FortyMeter is a face-painting, invective-hurling fanatic. And the FortyMeter didn't make any promises about predicting next year's Fall Classic.

Yankees Hoping the Pieces Will Fit [nytimes.com -- see "Multimedia" sidebar]
ThirtyMeter points to Sox [boa.com]