Take this to the bank: the Yanks could tank: remember, George: $200 million can buy you just about anything--except a guarantee for success in October.(Baseball)(Bronx Billionaires)

Don't fret, Yankees haters. Read on, and you'll see plenty of potential obstacles that could keep the restocked and heavily favored Bronx Billionaires from winning the World Series--and I didn't have to reach too far to find them. Not all of them, anyway.

1. Pitching without any cartilage in his right knee hinders Randy Johnson more this season than last (when it didn't seem to hinder him at all), especially in the cold of early April and late October, when warming up the old bones is a little tougher than it was back in Arizona.

2. Carl Pavano finds that pitching in front of 50,000 New Yorkers--or a packed house at Fenway--is a tad more intense than working in front of 30,000 empty seats.

3. There really is something going on with Jaret Wright's right shoulder.

4. Despite offseason surgery on his left shoulder, Gary Sheffield has trouble hitting like Gary Sheffield.

5. Jason Giambi reports to Tampa having lost another "four pounds," and his difficult times continue on and off the field.

6. Tino Martinez, meanwhile, doesn't take long to show the Yankees why they chose Giambi over him three years ago.