The e-mail from Grantland Editor in Chief Bill Simmons came Wednesday at 3:53 p.m. "Shane- meet my friend JackO," it said. "I want you to exchange e-mails after Game 5. It will be funny."

Funny, sure, but funny for who? It felt like a setup from the word go. But what could we do? I checked with my editor, and she gave the okay. JackO and I, we're both Yankee fans, and they used it against us. What follows is four hours of frantic, illogical, desperate, and disjointed e-mailing. And I'm telling you, we never had a choice.

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