I'm not taking anything away from Boston or the Patriarcas, so please, don't jump down my throat if you're a New England guy. But those flags will be coming up to Connecticut, not down from Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

It's really not even open to debate. When you already own the dumps, the weigh stations and twenty small garbage companies (two and three trucks max), the road is already paved for you (or to be more precise, the people behind you) to expand a little bit.