Who is the Underdog Now??

Is this the Michael Jordan of Taiwan???

It seem that after 86 years of losing, only to see the Yankees continue to win during that time, that Red Sox fans had grudgingly accepted their underdog role. Now the question has to be...Who is the underdog now? A reasonable person can't possibly look at the Red Sox and Yankee rivalry through the same old glasses any longer can they? Isn't it a fact that the Red Sox are now the team to beat in that rivalry? The tide has certainly turned hasn't it? The Yankees are always referencing their "26 rings", but don't the most recent 2 rings that the Red Sox find on their fingers trump that when we are talking about this decade, and certainly this season? I guess it would depend on who you ask. Hal Steinbrenner certainly doesn't think so. He was quoted in GQ Magazine as saying....

"I don’t think you guys wanted to play us in the ALCS. So I will concede nothing. I think we’re better than you."

I can appreciate that coming from the team owner but is the average sports fan with no allegiance to either the Red Sox or the Yankees suppose to believe that? I mean aren't the New York Giants now the team to beat in football? If that's the case, and I believe most New Yorkers will tell you that it is, then don't those same New Yorkers have to say that the Red Sox are the team to beat in baseball?

Now I know what most New Yorkers are probably thinking right now, and that is that we have forgotten about their secret weapon. Which secret weapon you ask? That would be Chien-Ming Wang, the "Michael Jordan of Taiwan"; I do wish I could have been in the room when his agents pulled that one out of their asses! To respond to that thought, on behalf of Red Sox Nation, I say to you, that as great as he may be, we are not worried about Chien-Ming Jordan.

Anyway, it is my humble opinion that, at the end of the day, when all the arguing and debating is done, that the Red Sox are the team to beat. As for why, it's real easy. They have to be. They are the reigning champions and that will hold true until they are eliminated from World Series contention in 2008, and nothing that the Yankees have done in the past can change that.