I've been perusing a certain well known yankees message board, and plastered all over the place I see references to a certain changing dynamic between the Red Sox and the yankees. I know we're only 3-1 against them and we still have however many games left to play, but I figured it was worth discussing since yankee fans seem so preoccupied with it.
Essentially they're arguing that the Red Sox are now winning games that the yankees used to. Last night was a prime example. I'm trying to stay as far away from this curse thing as possible, but it now seems that whatever used to happen to the Red Sox (star players going down, untimely errors, clutch hits against) is now happening to the yankees. It's too early to make assertions yet, but it seems like the Red Sox have the upper hand this season, at least in the early going.
Will this drive the yankees to make some ridiculous "win-now" trade which decimates their farm system? Will the Red Sox collapse a la pre-2004? What caused this paradigm shift? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?