Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman react to the rivals’ most recent series and why a potential playoff series would be more appropriate as a wild card or divisional round matchup. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Would you rather have Yankees Red Sox later on in October?

This particular season, um, or does this feel like an appropriate place for them to do it out?

I think it’s appropriate.

I also think it’s fitting to, to kind of, it’s like that’s what they get for, that’s what Toronto has earned.

is to watch these two have to duke it out in a short series.

We’ve had one of these in the 1 game setting, and that was plenty dramatic.

I think getting it in a 3 game setting will also be interesting.

And I will also say with the Red Sox winning this game on Sunday, at least keeps them within striking distance.

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Now again, the schedule is very much in the Yankees’ favor, but there’s at least enough time for maybe the Red Sox to make a push and, and steal home field between, uh, those two, those two teams.

For, you know, that 3 game set seems unlikely, again, because of the schedule.

Uh, that said, I, I, I’m, I’m looking forward to it.

I think those two teams in, in that 3 game set is going to be, it’s gonna be pretty compelling, especially if it lines up so that the last couple weeks, the last couple of games, they kind of know where they’re headed and that they can set their pitching going into that 3 game series is what I’m kind of hoping for as a neutral.

And it seems like that’s fairly plausible depending on how the rest of the American League shakes out.

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