BOSTON -- A ticket broker tweeted a short time ago, “Could this be the least cared about Yankee – Red Sox series in their entire history?’’

It may feel like it, but no, not even close. The Yankees, of course, are fighting to maintain their lead in the American League East. You have to go back to 1993 for the last full season in which the Sox and Yankees both missed the postseason, and the Yanks were still in contention when they played the Sox in mid-September.

But the previous year, 1992, both teams had losing records when they met in the last two games of the season. The Sox won both to finish 73-89; the Yanks finished 76-86, and both games drew crowds of 33,200-plus to Fenway Park.

For spectacular indifference, it would be hard to top the last two games of the 1965 season, when the Yanks and Sox convened at Fenway. The Yanks, who had lost the World Series in seven games the year before, finished a distant sixth, but they beat the Sox twice on the final weekend to saddle the Sox with a 100-loss season, their first since 1932. Attendance at Fenway for the final two games: 4,300 and 5,933.

Speaking of ticket brokers, a check of StubHub at around 1 p.m. Tuesday showed 1,814 seats available for Tuesday night’s game at Fenway Park, with standing room starting at $17, grandstand and bleachers at $19, and field boxes as low as $81. All below face value.

And then there is my colleague Wallace Matthews' column on ESPNNewYork.com. The headline? "Time to Turn Boston Into Bronx North".