The Yankees of the Paul O'Neill years played with a unique confidence -- not a swagger, but a competitive arrogance; they went about their business with a quiet self-assuredness that yes, in the end, they would find a way to win. The Red Sox, winners of two of the last four World Series, now possess that same well-earned trait. You can see it in the eyes of Josh Beckett and Jonathan Papelbon and David Ortiz and, most of all, in Dustin Pedroia, who was seemingly born with it. These Red Sox wil ...

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