My Bronx Bombers

For a regular-season game, how much better does it get, than sweeping the Boston Red Sox, clinching the AL East and setting off the first real celebration in the history of the gorgeous, new Yankee Stadium?

That, of course, is what can happen tonight.  I will happen tonight.  I would have to say it doesn't get a whole lot better than that as a New York Yankee fan. John Harper of the New York Daily News expressed it this way.

"If only the fans could break out the old "1918, 1918" chant, it would really feel like old times here at the new Yankee Stadium. As it is, this weekend is turning out to be the most fun New Yorkers have had with the Red Sox in town since The Rivalry changed forever in 2004.
And why not? This is a season when the Yankees have reclaimed a sense of superiority between the teams, with the obvious caveat of a possible reengagement in the ALCS, and now they have a chance to make it official by clinching the AL East title today by sweeping these Sox.  Short of winning it all, it's hard to imagine anything Yankee fans would enjoy more."

Harper is right, of course. It's different now, but this would be sweet. Oh, and I don't want to hear Terry Francona's excuse-saying that the Red Sox are not showing all their cards this weekend.  We all know Boston does not want to watch the Yankees celebrate tonight.