How Poor Negotiation Skills Killed the Red Sox Playoffs

It’s playoff season again, and Red Sox fans will ruefully remember the American League playoffs of 1999 against the Yankees, when amateur umpires made two monumentally bad calls favoring Yankee second baseman Chuck Knoblauch in Games One and Four, killing a big Boston rally in both cases. The Yankees won that contest four games to one, and led by a young Derek Jeter, went on to sweep the World Series. But any true baseball fan will tell you: it should have been closer!