{"id":4945,"date":"2014-04-25T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2014-04-25T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T16:13:49","slug":"red-sox-yankees-rivalry-renewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=4945","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry Renewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry is Back<br \/>\nBy Chris Ryan<\/p>\n<p>For the past 10 seasons the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry has been more media hype than actuality, but this year it&#8217;s different.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox won the World Series last year and the Yankees reloaded this offseason much at the expense of their adversaries in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees not only swiped Jacoby Ellsbury&#8211;arguably the most significant figure in the Red Sox line-up&#8211;they outbid Boston for the services of All-Star catcher Brian McCann and aging slugger Carlos Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>The Ellsbury heist was without question the acquisition that hurt the Sox the most.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like we took the guy that made their offense go,&#8221; said Yankees outfielder Alfonso Soriano.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/146238823&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The McCann signing was also very significant. Boston opted to sign AJ Pierzynski to a one-year deal and let the Yankees sign McCann to a five-year deal and wait on several elite catching prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Sox catcher David Ross said that McCann came very close to signing with Boston before finally choosing the Yankees. McCann wouldn&#8217;t deny that when asked, but said he&#8217;s moved on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s in the past,&#8221; said McCann. &#8220;It&#8217;s not something that I&#8217;m even worried about right now. I&#8217;m glad to be part of this organization. I&#8217;m right where I want to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry is Back By Chris Ryan For the past 10 seasons the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry has been more media hype than actuality, but this year it&#8217;s different. The Red Sox won the World Series last year and the Yankees reloaded this offseason much at the expense of their adversaries in Boston. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}