New Year for Old Foes

The Red Sox are not the Yankee rivals that belongs to the defending Champion Tigers( still sounds weird) but the Red Sox are the team Yankee fans most enjoy beating so that's the real rivalry. The Red Sox for their part seem to exist in some strange nether world where all of the accomplisments are placed second to beating the Yankees. Something about that OH for 86 year thing that Yankee fans now understand. Yankee fan haven't won since 2000 and that is a lot longer than 86 years its 6 Steinbrenner years..that's about 100 years in interpretation to the rest of baseball..and he has spent about 100 years worth of salary. The Red Sox have loaded up and the league has shown its usual generosity like sending Brendan Donnelly for a prospect with a bad arm( again.. Schilling for Casey Fossum). The word on the street is that the Angels offered him to the Yankees in exchange for Derek Jeter and $100m the Yankees balked and only agreed to $99m but Boston out bid the Yankees with Phil Seibel. So obviously the Angels will win the league behind the 34-0 / 0.00 era performance of Phil Seibel... but if they don't Boston is the 'mortal lock '.