Right now, the Yankees have enough problems without worrying about avenging last year's disappointment, but playing the Tigers will be an early challenge.
And, although the Giants were poor, it was a ruthless attacking display which soon ended any hopes Huddersfield might have had of avenging last August's 25-16 Wembley defeat.
The Russian won 71 percent of service points as he romped to victory in 79 minutes, avenging last year's defeat to the unseeded German at Wimbledon in their only other meeting.
The reward for David Moyes's men is a meeting with Championship outfit Reading at Goodison Park on 1 March - and the result also goes some way to avenging their loss to Chelsea in 2009's final.
But the Democrats' image-making is clearly relying on Lieberman's presence to invoke the sort of Old Testament avenging angel who'll rain down plagues at the first sign of moral turpitude.