Red Sox / Yankee tidbits.

The Baseball Crank did an interesting little analysis yesterday, looking at the Red Sox and Yankees down the stretch, historically. It should come as a shock to absolutely no one that the Yankees have traditionally played better in the last two months of the season, and the Red Sox worse.

I predict that that trend continues, in spades, if the Red Sox are dumb enough to turn Manny Ramirez into a bag of baseballs, as so many rumors are predicting that they will. A couple of points:

• The Yankees front office, as of a couple of hours ago, were reportedly telling people that the deal was done, that Ramirez was going to the Mets. By all accounts, that was premature, to say the least.


• The Yankee and Blue Jay and Oriole front offices are all thrilled with the prospect of any of the purported Ramirez trades taking place. Does the Red Sox front office really need to know any more than that to say "NO!"?