It is so fun to watch the back and forth between the Sox and the Yanks. Sure, Jacoby was really out at second yesterday and the pinstripes have cause to complain but this year there is more than the play to argue about. The ball parks now symbolize the divisions:

“There are those who want to build the Eighth Wonder of the World,” Larry Lucchino, the Red Sox’ president and chief executive, told me Friday. “We just wanted to preserve a nice little old ballpark.” Lucchino didn’t have to identify “who” built what. But we’ll assume he was not referring to the Houston Astrodome but to a certain South Bronx monument to excess — best known in its young life for a home team clubhouse that is more of a penthouse, a jet stream to right field and empty cushioned seats that promise to be a continuous and televised reminder of a grand and greedy overreach.

...and that is in a New York paper! We should be clear that the Sox have poured plenty of cash into Fenway to update the experience and expand seating. But on my rough estimate, those refurbishment expenses equate to about 7-8% of the cost of New Yankee Stadium. It contextualizes the meaning of A.J. Burnett as well as the importance of having the best eyebrows in baseball.