Sox & Yanks

The 2005 Baseball season is coming to a close this weekend and my beloved Ole' Town Team (Boston Red Sox) are going to square up against Evil Empire ( NY Yankees ).

You're probably asking yourself... "How could that be possibly true?"

The Red Sox did the unthinkable last year when they came back from an 0-3 deficit to defeat the New York Yankees in what could arguably be the greatest 7 game series of all time.

Prior to that AL Championship, a few co-workers asked if I wanted to have the Sox play the Yanks to get to the World Series.... the truth is, I really didn't want to see the match up. It wasn't because I thought the Sox couldn't be the Yankees. I just didn't think that the match up could rival what happened in the 2003 ACLS.

The truth is... I didn't care who the Sox had to topple on their way to the World Series. I didn't have to add a degree of difficulty to it. A World Series win is a World Series win. 25 guys have to come together as a team every fall and figure out a way to win the best of 7 to win it all... Having to face the Yanks before getting to the biggest prize in Baseball would have been cool... don't get me wrong, but who was going to hold our feet to the fire?

Apparently everyone. Had the Sox not defeated the Yankees on the way to the World Series, we would have never heard the end of it.

I think that's the reason why this weekend mach-up meets so much. At stake, the Division Title. A prize that we have never successfully wrestled away from the Yankees in the history of Sox VS Yanks, in respect to head to head mach-ups in September/October.

To clinch the division, the Sox must sweep the Yanks 3 games to 0. If we win 2 out of the 3, we get to play them in the house that Ruth built for a 1 game playoff to win the East.

.mCr.