The Yanks-Redsox series is a grudge match between two teams who totally hate each other. Damn is it awesome:

By the time Manny Ramirez made his menacing move toward Roger Clemens, Kevin Hallinan was already trying to control the fallout. The fight brewing on the field wasn't his concern - it was how the fans would react.

Hallinan, major league baseball's security chief, met with Red Sox and law enforcement officials and they decided to cut off beer sales at Fenway Park right then, three innings early. Then, he walked from Canvas Alley - the tarp storage area on the first-base side - to the concourse to make sure the message had gotten out.

"We went directly to a beer stand and attempted to buy a beer. They said, 'Sorry, we're shut down,"' Hallinan recalled Monday as he prepared for the fourth game of the AL championship series. "We went from one (stand) to another and it was: 'No good,' 'Shut down,' 'Finished.' I'm going to say it took five or ten minutes, and it was done.

"If we pull the switch, we want to make sure that the switch works. It worked that day," he said. "Hopefully it will continue to work."

In the wake of Saturday night's bench-clearing brawl between the Yankees and Red Sox players, security officials are re-examining the plans they hope would keep a minor skirmish from escalating into an all-out riot.

Coaches getting thrown around and bullpen workers getting the hell kicked out of him, I love baseball.