Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays Bring New Bad Blood to Baseball

For the last few years, and really since the 2003 season, the biggest rivalry in Major League Baseball has once again been Red Sox-Yankees. It has provided all kinds of great baseball moments since it's been renewed on the national level: A bench-clearing brawl featuring Pedro Martinez facing off against Don Zimmer, in possibly the most-comical fight in sports history, and Aaron Boone's Game Seven game-winning homer off of Wakefield in the 2003 NLCS.  No to mention, A-Rod's elementary playground-esque slap of Bronson Arroyo's glove at first base at an absolutely crucial point of Game Six in the 2004 NLCS, helping him to cement his position as biggest postseason goat of all time (other than the one from Wrigley). And we can't forget about the Red Sox finishing the comeback from 3-0 in that same series, becoming the first team ever to do so and then sweeping the Cards for their first World Series win in 86 years to break the curse of the Babe; Boston winning the Series not once but  ... (link)