I’m excited about the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry again

A lot of fans in the Northeast like to think the baseball world revolves around the Northeast, and fans from other parts of the country like to lament that the mainstream media seems to support that idea. That’s not the case right now with focus turning west for this Astros-Dodgers World Series. To put it another way, neither the Red Sox nor the Yankees are playing for the title this year. Ostensibly, this means that both teams have work to do as they work towards their ultimate goal. Since New York made it farther into the postseason than Boston this year, the narrative is that they are closer to championship-quality. Perhaps that’s true. Perhaps it’s not. I really have no idea, and I’m not positive we can extrapolate that kind of hard stance just based on a single postseason run. Either way, that’s not what I want to talk about today. I do want to talk about something that I do know: I am psyched for the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, and that hasn’t really been true for almost ten years now.

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