For all the noise of this Yankees offseason, as far as the team on the field goes, all it amounted to was the status quo. Alex Rodriguez, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera are all back -- and richer. Young pitchers Phil Hughes, Ian Kennedy and center fielder Melky Cabrera didn't go to the Twins for Johan Santana. The 2008 Yankees will be a slightly older albeit considerably more expensive version of the 2007 team. And......

It was bound to happen, no? After the trouncing they received on Saturday night, it's a wonder that the Red Sox could even win a game in the AL Championship Series, but that's what they managed to do last night in 12 innings. The Sox won last night, or this morning, on a game winning two-run homer by David Ortiz off of Paul Quantrill. The game finally ended at 1:23, more than five hours after......