Yankees and Red Sox fans have a long and storied history of doing terrible things to one another any chance they get. And they're still at it: Deadspin pointed us to the videos below, which show a female wearing a Red Sox hat brawling with Yankees fans in Section 328...during a Yankees/Tigers game. Skip to 1:15 in the first video to see the blows (and we strongly recommend putting down your volume). more ›

With General Manager Theo Epstein having jumped ship for the woeful Chicago Cubs, the Red Sox have completely imploded since they collapsed down the stretch of this past season. With everyone in Boston collectively freaking out all at once, the team looks set for a complete overhaul. It's so bad, David Ortiz, one of their biggest sluggers of the past decade, is fed up with all the drama...and thinking outloud about the possibility of joining the Yankees. more ›

Now that the Yankees have clinched their 50th playoff spot and are the American League East champs, 2011 post-season tickets are now on sale at Yankees.com. Here's what the Pinstripes say:

Due to a limited number of tickets available for sale, a maximum of two (2) Tickets to one (1) potential game (the "Ticket Limit") scheduled to be played at Yankee Stadium (each a "Game" and, collectively, the "Games") during the 2011 American League Division Series ("ALDS") and/or the 2011 American League Championship Series ("ALCS"). A maximum of four (4) Tickets in total, but no more than two (2) Tickets to one (1) potential game of the ALDS and two (2) Tickets to one (1) potential game of the ALCS may be purchased. Only a LIMITED number of Tickets (as determined by the New York Yankees in its sole and absolute discretion) will be made available during the On-Sale. more ›

Was a Red Sox pitcher rattled yesterday because he was served child-support papers before he started in a big game for the struggling team who are grasping at straws trying to hold on to their slim lead on the AL wild card? Or was it more because the process server was dressed in pin-stripes? more ›

Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, both the Yankees and their ace, CC Sabathia, can beat the Red Sox. They won Tuesday, 5-2, behind six innings of 10-strikeout, two-run ball from the lefty, who needed 129 pitches to do get his first win in five starts against Boston this season. The Yankees are now 3-10 against the Red Sox. Francisco Cervelli hit a home run and clapped as he cross home plate. That drew the ire of John Lackey, who hot Cervelli when the Yankees catcher came up again. But the joke was on Lackey as Cervelli came around to score the final New York run. Cory Wade, Boone Logan, Rafael Soriano and Mariano Rivera combined to pitch three scoreless innings of relief. more ›

A New Brunswick businessman says that the city's Mayor, James Cahill, is holding up approval of his liquor license for a sports bar there because he doesn't like the name. So the owner, a Yankees fan, has filed suit in federal court to be allowed to open up the bar, which he plans to call Buck Foston's. Somehow we suspect he wouldn't have any problem opening it up in the Bronx! more ›

Mets 7 Astros 4: Not only did Justin Turner hit a three-run home run, he also drove in five runs in the Mets' victory over Houston. That home run was also his first career home run! This was also the Mets' third consecutive series victory. more ›

Alec Baldwin dropped some sad news this week, confirming that regardless of what happens with the show, he'll be leaving 30 Rock after next season. But maybe that means he'll have more time to root for the Yankees: New Era launched a new ad campaign in which Baldwin is a die-hard Yankees fan trash talking with John Krasinski, a die-hard Red Sox follower. Watch the video below: more ›

Dads have a funny way of teaching their children lessons about the harsh realities of the world. Some won't pay their bail when they get arrested for dealing drugs, while others threaten to kick their kid out of the house for not loving the right baseball team. In the video below, a Red Sox-loving dad tells his four-year-old son, who loves the Yankees, that he is alone in this world, and shall always be alone. "You're on your own. You're on your own pal," the dad cruelly intones. At least the kid has a good older brother, who yells, "Don't make the kid cry!" more ›

The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is fun when someone buries a Sox jersey under Yankee Stadium, but it's not so cute when knives get involved. Nashua, NH man Monte Freire is in critical condition after being stabbed in a Connecticut bar this weekend over the team rivalry. Police have arrested John Mayor of New Haven for the stabbing, and he has been charged with assault, breach of peace, and possession of a controlled substance. Back in 2008, a Sox fan was fatally run over by a Yankees fan—in Nashua, NH. Perhaps the folks from Nashua should find a new hobby for a while. more ›

The Yankees' arch rivals, the Boston Red Sox, put away their differences with the Bombers/Evil Empire in order to pay tribute to late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. The Red Sox held a moment of silence for The Boss and late Yankees public address announcer Bob Sheppard before their game against the Texas Rangers. While Steinbrenner was ruthless, one Red Sox fan told the NY Times, "He’s a human being and deserves to be honored. That doesn’t mean we love him, but we respect him. There’s competition, but also decency." more ›

A New Hampshire jury found Ivonne Hernandez guilty of second-degree murder for running over a man who had mocked her for rooting for the Yankees last May. After a fight erupted in a bar in Nashua, NH — which is reportedly "Red Sox country" — a group of Sox fans followed the 45-year-old woman outside and started insulting the Yankees decal on her car and chanting "Yankees suck!" Hernandez then got into her 1997 Dodge Intrepid and drove it into the crowd, killing 29-year-old Matthew Beaudoin. more ›

In 2008, Ivonne Hernandez was arrested after allegedly running down a man who taunted her for her allegiance to the Yankees. A fight apparently began at a Nashua, NH bar—where she announced she was a Yankees fan—and continued in the parking lot, with Red Sox fans belittling her Yankees car decal. Prosecutors say that Hernandez "never braked... accelerated at a high speed for about 200 feet" and "went directly at" a group of people, killing Matthew Beaudoin. Today, her second-degree murder trial begins and the Nashua Telegraph has live video of the proceedings. more ›

The Yankees' new rally technique might be to turn their jerseys inside-out, as a show of solidarity with one young fan who was forced to do so by his Red Sox-loving fourth grade teacher. Nine-year-old Nathan Johns says he was asked to step outside his upstate classroom and turn his CC Sabathia shirt-inside out by Peter (Mister) Addabbo. The teacher apparently keeps Red Sox paraphernalia on display all over the classroom, the real evil empire. Johns told reporters in what we can only imagine was his most adorable voice, "I thought to myself, 'Is he serious or is he kidding?' But he had this look like he wasn't kidding at all.' It was such a horrible day I don’t ever want anything like to happen again.” more ›

Phillies 6, Mets 2: Well, at least watching the Mets lose to Philadelphia during the final six weeks of the season is a less painful this year with the team barely having any healthy legs to stand up on, let alone collapse onto. Ryan Howard smacked a three-run home run to left in the top of the first off of Bobby Parnell and the Phillies would never look back in this afternoon's finale of the four-game series at Citi Field. Today's loss puts the Mets 16 1/2 games behind the World Series champs and somehow the news just keeps getting worse. Johan Santana has been scratched from tomorrow's start in Florida with a sore elbow and might be shut down for the season. Billy Wagner made his second appearance today since returning from Tommy John surgery, pitching a scoreless 8th for the Mets. Word is that complications have arisen with the Red Sox' attempt to bring him to Boston off waivers—Wagner wants the Red Sox to agree that they will not pick up his option for next year nor offer him arbitration, leaving him the possibility to sign somewhere where he could end his career as a closer. more ›

Coming off a four-game sweep of the Red Sox, the first since 1985, life in Yankeeland hasn't been so sweet since Aaron Boone went deep off Tim Wakefield to send the Bombers into the World Series in 2003. So what could possibly rattle any sense of complacency among the team with the best record and biggest division lead in baseball? How about the Times questioning the long-term security of their captain, Derek Jeter, whose ten-year contract is set to expire at the end of next year? After telling a reporter that there's been no talk of an extension, he was asked if that concerned him. He said, “I haven’t even thought about it. It’s 2009. It’s not 2010. Or 2011.” While no one has seriously suggested the Yankees would ever let Jeter walk before his 3,000th hit with the team came, the paper couldn't resist taking the bait of his somewhat surprising mention of the year he could test the free agent waters. Hopefully GM Brian Cashman won't lose sleep over the quote after all the praise he's receiving for the integral roles played in the sweep by his big acquisitions Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett. more ›

Less than a month after taking a $225 million loan against its midtown trophy building, the NY Times Company is now "trying to sell its sake in the Boston Red Sox baseball team, seeking to raise cash and shield its newspaper franchise from rapidly falling revenue," the NY Times reports. The article goes onto to say, "With credit largely frozen, this is a difficult time to be trying to sell any major asset, and it is not clear how much interest there might be, or at what price. But over the long run, prices for sports franchises tend to rise fast." The Times has a 17.5% share of the company that ought the Red Sox and Fenway Park as well as a 80% stake in regional cable channel New England Sports Network. more ›

A Massachusetts resident filed a lawsuit against the New York Yankees over injuries he received during a game at Yankee Stadium last year. During the August 29, 2007 game between the Bronx Bombers and Red Sox, Charles Hillios claims that two Yankees fans "harassed" him for cheering for the Red Sox. Though security warned the fans to stop bothering him, per the AP, Hillios says "the fans 'viciously attacked and physically assaulted' him when he went to a concession stand." We doubt this is the first--or last--instance of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry turning vicious. In May, a Yankees fan drove over a Red Sox supporter outside a NH bar. more ›

As expected, the hometown crowd at Fenway Park was ready to harass Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, whose private life has been very public lately. Last year, after A-Rod's public appearance with a blond stripper made news, Boston fans wore blond lady masks. more ›

Unless the Yankees turn things around, this summer's All-Star Game and the surrounding festivities will be the last time the current Yankee Stadium enjoys a national stage. If Major League Baseball has its way, one of the lasting images could be David Ortiz's attempt to hit a home run where a fan said the Red Sox slugger would. more ›

Baseball is full of superstitions. Some pitchers don't step on the foul lines. Some announcers don't say the phrase "no-hitter" or "perfect game" while a pitcher is working on them. And some rogue construction workers just keep on burying Red Sox artifacts in the new Yankee Stadium. The same guy who buried the (fake) David Ortiz jersey now says he buried an official scorecard from the 2004 American League Championship Series, the best-of-seven playoff round in which the Red Sox rallied from a 3-0 deficit. more ›

A Red Sox fan paid the ultimate price for his allegiance this weekend when he crossed paths with a Yankees fan in New Hampshire. Ivonne Hernandez, 43 years old and a Yankees fan, is charged with fatally running him over. more ›

Could this year get any worse for Debbie Clemens? Not only has the wife of embattled pitching ace Roger Clemens been accused of taking HGH with her husband, now sources says she knew about her husband's alleged 10-year affair with country star Mindy McCready, who was 15 (that's Miley Cyrus's age!) when it started! more ›

Who knew that a stupid joke could turn into a $175,000 gift to a cancer research center? The Red Sox jersey buried in and then excavated from the under-construction new Yankee Stadium was sold for $175,100, via an eBay auction held by The Jimmy Fund, the fundraising arm of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. more ›

• Red Sox 7, Yankees 5: Mike Mussina will be seeing Manny Ramirez in his sleep. The Stanford graduate gave up two home runs to the George Washington High School product as part of a distressing performance. The righty allowed five runs in three innings, and, unlike Wednesday, the Yankees could not put up 15 runs. more ›

The Red Sox jersey that was buried under cement and then excavated from the new Yankee Stadium was presented to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston today. more ›