You are aware that on the whole, the RS were older than the Yankees by about a year? You know what they say, .. don’t let the facts get in the way of a good rant.

It’s OK to hate the Yankees but that doesn’t excuse you from getting your facts straight.

Plus the money coming off this fall with Drew and Cameron will allow them to lockup a young right fielder for a while at a good price.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=4276861

The timing of dumping Man-Ram and Jason Bay were both perfect examples, now the Red Sox dump Cameron (albeit a year too late, but still not bad timing either), and at the end of this season will dump slacker J.D. Drew as well. Cameron and Drew both got one year too many on their guaranteed contracts, but it also acted as a safety net with which to transition either to kids and/or free agent signings.

Meanwhile Theo proactively brings in Carl Crawford and stud Adrian Gonzalez, both not even in their primes yet, and locks them up to long term contracts while the rival Yankees this offseason bottom feed and trawl instead for the Colon’s, Garcia’s and Marquez’s of times gone by.

Bottom line? I truly have no dog in this fight, but the Red Sox are clearly headed north while the aging, long term big contract hamstrung Yankees are about to watch the sunset as they will soon fall behind Tampa Bay in the near term, with well stocked Toronto and Baltimore producing promising big leaguers hot on their heels.