Lady Luck is a fickle mistress — just ask the Sox and Yankees

This decade has been the most monumental in the franchise’s history. Not only did new ownership arrive, but Fenway Park was revitalized, a Nation was born (in the media, that is), a new generation of stars (Nomar, Manny, Pedro, Big Papi, Papelbon, Pedroia) put...

R before Y

The reverent bias towards the NY Yankees has become automatic and fairly universal. The announcers on ESPN and especially Fox still consider them the Goliath of baseball. This little rant began during the weekend’s Red Sox-Yankee games, in which every...

Poll: Early Season Series

New Poll Question: How important is an early season series with the Yankees? The Yankees and Red Sox are scheduled to meet nineteen times and possibly more over the course of the 2009 season.  How important are these first three games in the grand scheme of things?...

Nine Up, Nine Down: Welcoming the Yankees

In advance of the Yankees coming to town tomorrow for a three-game set in what will be the unofficial start of baseball season around here, I figure we should get caught up with what’s going on in Yankeeland. So far, their prized offseason acquisition, CC...