<p>All you Boston Red Sux fans cryin yet? Because now you know whos really playing like champions.</p>
<p><em>daps</em> thats whats up, boston well see you in 100 years</p>
<p>but may I remind you who actually WON last year? oh yeah, us. and guess what? it doesn't even really matter until august or september! And another thing? yankees suc.k!</p>
<p>Haha, even "ididots" can get lucky! Win maybe another 10 or 15 championships and then we'll take you guys seriously. I don't even see why this is considered a rivalry when one team can't even compare for almost a century.</p>
<p>Derek "Come-through-in-the-clutch" Jeter baby!</p>
<p>Red Sox, World Series Champs:</p>
<p>.....1918,2004,2090,....</p>
<p>So are there any Red Sux fans who wanna say something?</p>
<p>Boston...who's your daddy? :p</p>
<p>Well, I don't live in Boston, but I hate the Yankees with a passion. I will remind Yankee fans that last year you guys won the regular season series, but made the largest postseason collapse ever. </p>
<p>Don't think Boston won't bounce back.</p>
<p>Actually, Boston won the regular season series last year, the Yankees won the AL East.</p>
<p>Boston is nowhere near the team it was last year, the fire that marked a team determined to break a curse is gone, some great players are gone, just compare their starters for the first two games last year - Schilling (hurt) and Pedro (NY Mets) - to this years - Wells and Clement, nowhere near as good, and Damon's hair is gone!!!</p>
<p>Meanwhile the Yankees have shored up their biggest weakness - starting pitching - Randy Johnson and Pavano both dominated in their first starts. With all these changes, there's no way last years collapse will be repeated, even with the Red Sox being Mo's Achilles Heel.</p>
<p>BTW, may I add that Hideki Matsui is playing like an MVP in his contract year. He went 2 for 3 today and hit his second homer in two games and that Derek Jeter is still the best player in the league to have in the clutch.</p>
<p>Dima, I would argue that Carlos Beltran is the most clutch player in baseball right now. He hit a home run in his first game this year as well as the 9 homeruns in 11 postseason games last year. If that isn't clutch, I don't know what is.</p>
<p>I believe last year the Yankees won the season series 19-18. I agree that Boston isn't as good as last year, without Pedro, but when Schilling gets back, that starting rotation will be insane. </p>
<p>The Yankees, once again, use money to buy what they need. The last 4 years, that didn't work come October. If you look all the way to the postseason, the Yankees are built for a 5 game series, not a 7. Randy will win 2 games, Pavano will not win both his starts and the rotation dies from that point out.</p>
<p>It was actually the Sox who won the season series last year.</p>
<p>The Sox (me=fan) have aweful and inconsistant starting rotation this year and are therefore going to be only average to good I think. We needed to try harder to keep our pitchers.</p>
<p>That being said and admittedly saying that we won't be that good this year, a scene comes to mind:</p>
<p>The Yanks have been wearing a lot of bling lately: 26 rings and the biggest choker in the history of sports!!!</p>
<p>Who's your PAPPY!!!</p>
<p>just my two cents, but I think Pedro was getting a bit too chubby and was demanding a bit too much. I think the sox are better off without him. Besides, he was always inconsistent for the first couple of innings, which often lost the game.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong, me=red sox fan</p>
<p>and guess what? I still don't think anything right now really means anything. It only starts gaining meaning in late summer/fall</p>
<p>but you have to make it to fall......</p>
<p>Whenever a team loses someone big, they say "oh, he really wasn't that good, he was over the hill, we don't need him"</p>
<p>And then Pedro Martinez gets on the mound for the Mets and dominates (the Mets SHOULD have won that game if their bullpen had come through) and you cry as David Wells gets rocked. </p>
<p>And Superior Child24 is right, if it's the White Sox as wild card champs and the Red Sox are sitting at home watching TV, how well they could do in the fall won't matter. </p>
<p>Do the Yankees use money to get what they need? Sure, so do the Mets and so do the Red Sox, the only successful team in baseball that does not succeed because of all the money they spent is the Minnesota Twins, and they don't have any money, but as hockey's New York Rangers have shown, money isn't everything, you have to know how to use it, and that the Yankees usually do. I would also like to point out that they were better in the late 90's with Bernie Williams, Joe Girardi and Jorge Posada, Tino Martinez, Scott Brosius, Paul O'Neill, etc. and have been worse since they started paying the big cash for the big guns like Jason Giambi.</p>
<p>As for Beltran, he was clutch for one month last year. Maybe two. Derek Jeter has been clutch day in and day out since his arrival started the Yankees World Series dominance of the late 90's. He has been especially clutch in the playoffs, look what he has done to the Braves, Padres, Mets, etc. in World Series games.</p>
<p>And what do you mean they have no pitching after Randy Johnson and Pavano? Who was their ace last year, who was such a big sign when they got him from Baltimore, who was one of the best pitchers the Orioles have had in a long time? Mike Mussina, who pitches tomorrow, is a great pitcher, and one who can come through in the postseason. He was great last year, especially against the Twins in the ALDS.</p>
<p>Who do you guys think will be in the World Series?</p>
<p>Yankees over the Cardinals in 6</p>