Can the Red Sox have peace with the Evil Empire?

The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees rarely trade with one another and that makes no sense. Maybe the time is ripe for a transaction reconciliation?

Am I turning into a baseball version of Neville Chamberlain who declared “Peace for our time” after meeting with Adolf Hitler? We all know how that turned out. But with North and South Korea suddenly engaged in a kissy face designed to finally end a conflict that outdates most people on the planet, then anything may be possible.

Is an olive branch extended by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees possible? Are both sides so firmly entrenched in their obstinance with one another that mutual baseball activities such as consummating a trade considered as likely as me writing a cognizant article?

The last deal of any significance was Kelly Johnson shipped to Boston for Stephen Drew. This, of course, had minimal impact on either team. That is certainly historically different from what had happened in the past. I do recall in Boston history a Babe Ruth being sent to New York for what amounted to a wet sack of old newspapers. But that was just the beginning.

The Yankee’s core roster in the 1920’s was basically the Boston core roster from the previous decade. Players simply hopped onto the train and shuffled off to New York for fame, fortune, and first place. But that is a distant past and for me, it was all about Sparky Lyle for Danny Cater. Look up the numbers on both but first remove sharp objects from the vicinity.