It wasn’t the first game of the 2009 renewal of baseball’s fiercest rivalry, but perhaps it was important. In a typically long Red Sox-Yankees affair made even longer by a 2+ hour rain delay prior to the start of the game, Boston outlasted the Bronx Bombers Monday night (and Tuesday morning) for a 6-4 [...]

You know that the economy is bad when:
1. The Yankees have a lower payroll than the year before ($6.86 million average per player in 2008; a record $7.47 million in 2007).
2. The Bronx Bombers didn’t want to risk Bobby Abreu accepting arbitration as a Type A free agent, even though it meant passing on the [...]