With the recent decline in the Red Sox/ Yankees rivalry a new rivalry has started to really heat up. It started in 2011 when the Baltimore ended the Sox last gasp hope of making the playoffs by winning in the bottom of the 9th and leading to the dismissals of Tito Francona, Theo Epstein, and many other sox players and lead to the hiring of Bobby Valentine and the disaster that was the 2012 Red Sox season. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. Manny Machado slid late and hard into Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia spiking him on his knee and ankle. The Sox chose not to retaliate until recently with having reliever Matt Barnes throwing at and getting suspended for 4 games. ( here is the conversation between Pedroia and Machado) https://twitter.com/BoSoxInjection/status/856245674890985472 After Machado was thrown at by Barnes, a conversation between Pedroia and Machado was caught on camera. Pedroia said that he had not told Barnes to throw at Machado and t...
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