Spring Training? What Spring Traing??

Maybe it's the fact that I'm 4,000 miles away that meant I didn't quite pick up on the intensity of yesterday's Yankees / Red Sox game in Fort Myers. ESPN's Jayson Stark points out that tickets were changing hands for $500, that there were $6 commemorative pins being sold and that 268 members of the media signed in at the press gate.

This is no longer just baseball, folks, this is Yankees / Red Sox, brought to you live from the fourth dimension by the YES Network.