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FOR THE FLORIDA MARLINS, THE sweetest sound was silence. The exhilarating cacophony of nothingness, a full stadium reduced to gaping as the interlopers did the familiar scrum dance on the pitcher's mound.
It was so quiet in the Bronx, you could hear a dynasty drop.
"Same as Chicago--like a vacuum sucked the life out of everyone," said Jeff Conine in the Marlins' decidedly unquiet clubhouse.
Josh Beckett did that, the 23-year-old ace-in-training whose stature was on a meteoric rise in the 2003 postseason. He sucked the life out of the Yankees, and in the process vindicated his 72-year-old manager, Jack McKeon, whose faith in Beckett on three ...
Source: HighBeam Research, On top of the world: Marlins complete 2003 season as baseball's...