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NEW YORK - You've got to like the way this Red Sox-Yankee thing is going this year. The Sox swept the Bronx Bombers 10 days ago at Fenway Park and again this week in Thurston Howell's favorite ballpark.

That's 5-0 against the Yankees this year, folks.

The Yanks can't seem to get out of their way against the Red Sox. And the scene at the end of both games this week was dismal for the locals. It was Edgar Allan Poe stuff. It was rainy, foggy, and the stands were largely empty at the end of both games. It was quiet enough to hear a few Yankee fans hooting on the hometown team when New York's bullpen walked four Red Sox to force a run home in the ninth.

"Kind of a miserable night," said Sox manager Terry Francona.

And his team won the game.

"In the two games here, the weather was bad and there weren't a lot of fans in those seats behind our dugout," said Dustin Pedroia. "I don't know why."

Might have been the car-wash rains. Might have been the home team's performance. Might have been a demonstration against overpriced seats in an economic recession.

The Sox did their best not to gloat. It is only May. And they do play these guys 13 more times.

"It would be good to be 5-0 against them," reasoned Theo Epstein before the finale. "We all remember August of '06 when we went 0-5 against them."

Ah yes, August of '06. That was the first time Manny Ramírez quit on the Sox. That was the five-game massacre at...
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