The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is the best in Baseball, if not all of sports. ESPN is located in Bristol, CT which is the Mason-Dixon line for both clubs, and some of their broadcasters are unabashed members of Red Sox Nation. One who plays the fence is the great Peter Gammons, an analyst for 'Baseball Tonight'. Gammons, who is a writer for the Boston Globe, becomes a Yankees supporter when he's on New York radio, possibly to get more people to read his articles and watch ESPN. The network loves the rivalry because the teams have the largest followings in all of sports, which equals higher ratings and more revenue for ESPN.
There are no more passionate Baseball fans than in the Northeast, where sell-outs still occur and fans travel for the opportunity to see their team play. ESPN plays on that passion by offering Red Sox or Yankees games regularly at the expense of every other team. If the matchup happens to be Yankees versus Red Sox, then the network will show two of the games in the series. Tonight, game three of the current series between the teams is on ESPN's 'Sunday Night Baseball' at 8pm. To promote the game, 'Baseball Tonight' has challenged fans to submit their all-time Yankees/Red Sox team consisting of members from each team. I submit mine:
Yankees/Red Sox All-Time Team:
C: Yogi Berra, NY
1B: Lou Gehrig, NY
2B: Bobby Doerr, BOS
3B: Alex Rodriguez, NY
SS: Derek Jeter, NY
LF: Ted Williams, BOS
CF: Joe DiMaggio, NY
RF: Babe Ruth, BOS/NY
DH: Jimmie Foxx, BOS
SP: Roger Clemens, BOS/NY
SP: Cy Young, BOS
SP: Lefty Grove, BOS
SP: Whitey Ford, NY
SP: Pedro Martinez, BOS
CL: Mariano Rivera, NY
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