"Pedro still undefeated in playoff fights with old men" -- read some of the headlines sent in to Boston.com for Saturday's Game 3 fracas in the Fens. Baseball -- it's the new blood sport...unless you're Medford native and mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, in which case it's all about the sox, literally.

See also Dan Shaughnessy's column on why Pedro's a big baby for pointing to his head, though not a punk for tossing Zimmer. And via Blogless Nat, here's a very entertaining ESPN column on the divergent Sox and Yanks perspectives on what happened: "According to the Red Sox, the Yankees' relievers tied a homeless Salvation Army Santa to the back of their bullpen cart and dragged him down Lansdowne Street until his flesh had been ripped from his back. Jeff Nelson, meanwhile, maintains that he and the rest of the New York relievers were sitting in the bullpen reading the Bible when a drunk Ted Kennedy unleashed six hungry Doberman Pinschers on them." Heh. And here's a gem on the Sox fans deepest fear -- what if we beat the Yanks and then...lose to the Cubs? :-o