When the tide says Red Sox Nation, the era of Yanks is virtually over.

The Boston Red Sox, the ever sympathetic and unlucky B-town team, nearly mid-way through the MLB season, currently stand firm on first place in the difficult American League East, comfortably four games ahead of their arch rival the NY Yankees. Despite tremendous attempts to woe Mark Teixeira to come into and contribute to the offence, the BoSox ended up getting the boots, largely due to the cunning and crafty agent of Teixeira, Scott Boras. The Yankees spent big in the off season bringing in A-grade pitchers C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett. They imagined to regain their dominance of the past century, but up until now the tides favored their arch rivals.

The clutch and ever performing bat of Big Papi, remained silent until mid-June. Come late June, Ortiz finally caught the silver lining in the dark cloud. Nonetheless to mention, when the dark cloud still prevailed, Jason Bay and Kevin Youkilis fitted in just perfectly. Bay proved the Nation the trade of Manny Ramirez last season, was never a mistake, he is the man of East Bay as was he rightly welcomed, "Jason welcome to East Bay". Contributions from home-grown talents Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury need to mentioned as well. As for the Yanks, until now, A-Rod with his baggage of steroid guilt, except for some home runs, remains a mystery on his performance in past playoffs and looks like the mystery is being contaminated to the regular season too. Mark Teixeira, looks good and is performing well, other than that the offensive edge goes to Boston Red Sox.

If that doesn't say much, Josh Bekkett, Tim Wakefield and John Lester needn't say much either. Contrast to the counterparts Chin Ming Wang, C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, they have sky-rocketed their performances to a different level altogether. Pitching wins games and so is Boston. With starting pitchers going deep into games and switching to the power-boost best bullpen in the entire league, seems to be the magic mantra of the Red Sox. As for New York, at least for the last series against the bean town team, their pitching failed miserably. Who holds the edge here, is as transparent as holy water.

Its eight out of eight, against New York and counting, with totals runs of 55-31. Its two for the BoSox and none for the Yanks this century. Its 500 consecutive sell-out for Fenway Park and only rising prices with empty suites for the Yankee Stadium. Yet time could tell a different story, after all its just midway, its just four games, its just a series away, and just a Championship away.

Has the curse reversed? Surely, the answer is in the end of the season.