Who Cares Anymore? Going Beyond the Red Sox/Yankees for This Week in Baseball

 
I'm going to go out on a limb and speak for the rest of baseball (excluding ESPN and Fox Sports). But who cares about the Yankees/Red Sox series right now? Nothing ever seems to change in this division. One of these two teams is always on the bubble. Besides, your own analysts have conceded that this is a great "prelude to the series at the end of August."   That's like saying an interleague series is a possible precursor to the World Series. Yeah, we like to watch those games, but they don't matter worth anything right now.   We've come to accept it, why can't the AL East and Media? We don't care that Red Sox fans despise A-Rod, and he's involved with Madonna. We don't care that Yankees’ fans think Manny is the most arrogant player to ever put on Red Socks. We don't care that this might be a future series in the playoffs. There is other baseball to be played. Besides, you have both been shown up by the second lowest payroll in baseball in the Tampa Bay Rays. It is one ... [link]

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