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• Vote: Which teams will come out on top of the wild-card races?

As Yankees legend Yogi Berra might put it, nobody cares about the Yankees playing the Red Sox anymore; it's too popular.

The rivalry that is probably simultaneously baseball's most popular and most reviled was renewed over the weekend, and the Yankees maintained plenty of breathing room in the AL East by taking two of three. There were a number of important series over the weekend, most notably a big one between the Rockies and Giants that wraps up tonight and which drew more than 130,000 fans to Coors Field for the first three games. But the spotlight was where it always seems to be when Boston and New York are involved; heading into the weekend, only 27 percent of voters rated the Giants-Rockies series as the most significant, compared to 39 percent for the Yankees-Red Sox series.

As much as griping about them is almost as much fun as griping about Brett Favre, is the devil you know more interesting than the Devil Rays or Angels you don't in the playoffs?

• SportsNation gives AL wild card the nod as baseball's best race.
• More than half of voters still picking against the Rockies in NL wild-card race.
• Monday's chat: Buster Olney talks MLB at 1 p.m. ET.

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rockies vs dodgers thursday, how come ESPN is not showing that game. Wow give us a little media coverage please, I know the Yanks vs Soxs is great, but it gets boring. Infact I think those are the only 2 teams where I know the starting line ups besides the Rockies.

” -- curveball04

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They only report and show CO sports when there is something negative to propagate... Helton should be the story of Baseball.. with all sluggers and hitters testing pos for performance enhancing drugs...Helton and Griffey should get MAD love

” -- brandonroyal69

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What's better than Yanks/Sox.....Sunday night Heavyweight fight. The first rubber match of the season in late August. With a 2 game swing at stake, both teams are sending out their Cy Young candidate Aces, Both lead the league with 14 wins, both trying to take the lead with 15 in a head to head showdown in Fenway Park!! This is why we love baseball...

” -- bigbluepete