Break out the brooms

I didn't have access to the Internet over the weekend, so I was unable to follow the games, but I certainly didn't expect to come into work this morning to discover that the Red Sox had swept the Yankees in New York.

It's early days yet, and so both sides were playing down the sweep, because they know that the Yankees can't possibly play like that all season. The Yankees haven't yet hit the panic button, even though yesterday saw Derek Jeter getting booed in the Bronx, and the Red Sox know better than to count their chickens. Manny Ramirez probably summed up the situation best, in his own inimitable way:

"The objective here is to win the World Series, not to beat the Yankees. They're the ones who got the rings. We don't got nothing."

He's right - the Red Sox don't got nothin' yet, but they have to be happy to be leaving town with a three-game sweep. On top of that, they're off back to Boston to play three games against the Devil Rays, whilst the Yankees' reward for what Joe Torre called "a terrible weekend" is Oakland's formidable trio of Hudson, Mulder and Zito. It's going to be an interesting week in the AL East.