The Difference between the Yankees & the Red Sox

This is just simple psychology...

If you hope for good things to happen, they may.

If you expect good things to happen, they will.

The Red Sox are built, developed, covered, and followed with the idea that they will hopefully, finally, overcome the Yankees and win their first World Series in 86 years.

The Yankees are built, developed, covered, and followed with the idea that they need to fend off the next best team in their division (for the past five years its been the Red Sox) and then beat a National League team in a seven game series to win their first World Series in 4 years.

In April, the Red Sox are always juiced to play the Yankees and do fairly well. The Yankees are always trying to get a few new stars acclimated to their system and stumble out of the gate.

Usually, the Red Sox and Yankees are neck and neck around the All-Star Break and the Yankees distance themselves around lateAugust/early-September when they meet around that time. This series feels a lot like a September series because the Yankees are so good this year that they have distanced themselves sooner.

Whenever critical moments and pressure situations arise the Yankees prevail because they expect good things to happen to them and the Red Sox HOPE for good things to happen to them. For example, the Red Sox and Yankees are tied at 3 in extra innings, and I'm at my computer writing this.

That said, I firmly believe that the Red Sox and Yankees are the two best teams in the American League. The Red Sox will improve, they have too much talent not to make the postseason. I have no doubt that this October will be the same as last October with New York and Boston in a seven game series for the American League Pennant.

And I will be hoping for good things to happen.