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I got sick of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry when ESPN had their game and was still doing stories about the bloody sock after the All Star Break. That rivalry reached its climax in the last two years, and it was sweet. Now the Red Sox have overstayed their limit and the Yankees just simply don't deserve to be in the playoffs.
You were probably on vacation when I made the post, but I can't stand how the Red Sox still play off the down to earth, hometown, grassroots, underdog baseball team. They aren't. Thats what the A's, the Indians, the Twins are. The Red Sox are a team just as bad as the Yankees, they pluck players from teams who can't afford them, let them grow their hair out, and suddenly they aren't as bad as the Yankees? In the words of Stephen A. Smith, please.
Another Red Sox-Yankees ALCS would just take away from what it was the past two years, because neither team is the best this year. It would be like the two left feet fighting to see who loses to St. Louis, after they have already had what like 20 national games this year and a huge series right before the playoffs? I think the Miz joins me, I would rather see the Indians and A's in the ALCS. I think it will be better off if the loser of that last series misses the playoffs, because then it will be like an extra playoff round for free, and the Yankees would probably miss the playoffs. If they have a huge series so that both teams get in (which would be very unlikely) and then another series a week later, it would just add to the overkill. The way its set up now is at least something new and different, and it will be fun to watch the Yankees get knocked out of the playoffs.
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