"When we play Boston, it's a whole different set of circumstances," Torre said.

"Now when we play Boston, I'm going to want to beat them," Rogers said.

I know, because Larry has done it to us a couple of times when we played Boston.

Two years ago, everybody was looking forward so much to us playing Boston that we forgot about Houston and ended up watching the thing from home.

"Maybe the best thing that happened to him was that we played Boston in the first round and he faced a strong challenge."

Hard to believe, but the Rangers are already finished playing Boston this season.

The good thing is we go home to play Boston.

"Certainly you feel better about yourself, whether you're about to play Boston or any other team."

We were playing Boston and the first two times up I hit a home run.

Oh, by the way, the Yankees are playing Boston this Saturday.