This doesn't feel like a Red Sox/Yankee series

Well this is a strange scenario for a late season Red Sox/Yankees
series...

The Red Sox have a 1 1/2 game lead in the Wild Card and are struggling to keep their nose above water against the Twins and White Sox.

The Yankees are 10 back in the loss column for the division and 5 behind the Red Sox and are struggling against an irrelevant September for the first time since George Herbert Walker Bush was President.

Yeah these are must win games for the Yankees and Red Sox... but for different reasons than anyone could have ever imagined.

Who would have thought both fan bases were basically going to cede the division to Tampa Bay?

Who would have thought the Yankees would be closer to 4th than to 2nd place?
Who would have thought the Red Sox would be looking at their rotation slowly falling apart and think "How can we compete with the Rays, White Sox and Twins?"

Who would have thought this series would pale in dramatic comparison to the Mets and Phillies?

Now THAT is a series where first and second place could be swapped with split victories.

Or the Brewers and the Cardinals... two teams boxing out for the Wild Card. The Brewers can put St. Lou away... or the Cardinals can make it REALLY interesting in September.

And the Twins could catch the White Sox... and the Dodgers can gain ground on Arizona...

Meanwhile the two bloated franchises that ESPN and I focus on battle it out... and people are looking for the drama.

The best they could come with is "The last Red Sox Yankee series in the history of Yankee Stadium."

And that is dramatic as the team will move next year from the South western corner of 161st and River to the North western corner of 161st and River.

How can they possibly feel the same?