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Red Sox/Yankees Alert

The last regular season Red Sox/Yankees Alert is on as the Yankees start a three game series in Boston tonight.  The Sox are 5.5 games ahead of the Yankees in the AL East with two weeks left in the season and a sweep by New York would give them a great shot at overtaking the Sox in the division.  As it stands now, both teams look to be in the playoffs, with the Yanks 3.5 games ahead of Detroit for the wildcard. 

What's it all mean?  They'll be lots of drunks in the streets tonight. Be alert.

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Red Sox/Yankees Alert Lifted

The three game series between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox is over and the neighborhood 'Red Sox/Yankees Alert' is lifted.  The Yanks pounded Boston and came away with three wins -- they're now 5 games behind the Red Sox in the division -- and positioned themselves for a playoff push over the next month.  The two teams meet again in two weeks for a three game series.

Red Sox/Yankees Alert: Day Two

The New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 5-3 last night at Yankees Stadium and the teams play the second game in the three game series tonight. The "Red Sox/Yankees Alert" is still in place.  Again, be on the look-out for a heightened level of public drunkenness, fights and noise disturbances in the neighborhood over the next few days, as the two team's fans discuss their differences. 

Red Sox/Yankees Alert: Expect Misdemeanors, Noise Disturbances

Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez discusses a pitch with New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens, 2003 ALCS.

The Boston Red Sox begin a three-game series against the Yankees tonight at Yankees Stadium. The stumbling Yanks, who’ve lost two in a row now, are eight games behind the Red Sox in the American League East – a number that’s got to have owner George Steinbrenner practicing his strangling techniques and fans yearning for decisive victories against the Sox in the coming days. A three game sweep against Boston would position the Yanks nicely for a run at winning the division, and securing a playoff spot when the season comes to a close in about a month.

If you’ve lived in New York or Boston since 2003, you’ve undoubtedly noticed a heightened rivalry – not between the teams, that’s always been there – but between the fans, which only seems to be getting worse.

I think the feeling can be best explained by a guy I saw in the men’s room at Yankees Stadium the last time Red Sox were in town. The inebriated, and obviously well-bred Yankees fan, was urinating in a restroom sink as his son watched, as he tried to explain how the other half lived:

I hate Boston. They’re awful fans. I’ve been to Fenway. Red Sox fans have no class.

And the sentiment would be described on both sides in a similar way given the right circumstance. Therefore, it’s only fitting that we institute a “Red Sox/Yankees Alert” whenever the Red Sox, who grabbed headlines last week by superseding the Yankee’s as “America’s Team” according to USA Today, play the Yankees.

UESers: be ready for heightened baseball statistics chatter, increased levels of gambling and of course, lots of drinking, public drunkenness, misdemeanors and fistfights over the next three days.