News Summary

• The Yankees and Red Sox used to have a rivalry that made you want to punch somebody, and to get punched.
• But these two franchises just don’t have that juice anymore, at least not with each other.
• The driving animus of the Red Sox–Yankees rivalry of 20 years ago was not just that the Yankees were the dominant team.
• The Red Sox had not won a World Series in nearly 100 years, which evaporated the whole narrative that made the whole thing sing.