Sox Own Trade Deadline

Since the 2004 ALCS, the Boston Red Sox have been superior to their rival New York Yankees in every facet of baseball from World Series wins to off season acquisitions. The story was no different come the July 31 trade deadline.
The Red Sox decided to send Manny Ramirez to the Dodgers and recieve Jason Bay in a three way trade including the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Yankees delt reliever Kyle Farnsworth to the Tigers for vetran catcher Ivan Rodriguez.
If Cashman v. Epstein was a heavy weight bout, it would look like Evander Holyfield facing my 85 year old grandmother. It would look like Jacoby Elsbury vs. Cecil Fielder in a foot race. Ozzie Smith vs. Ozzie Osbourne in gymnastics. Yeah, its that one sided.
Lets break it down:
The Yankees delt away the only veteren in their pathetic bullpen for a worn out, 13 million dollar contract year catcher. Farnsworth had a 3.65 era in 45 games and wracked up 43 strike outs with the Yanks. This left the Yankee bullpen with, Jose Veres, Edwar Ramirez, David Robertson, Damaso Marte and Billy Traber. Those names have even the most savvy fan going, "Who?"
Since Ivan Rodriguez became a Yankee, he's hit just .238 and has thrown out 2 out of 10 base stealers. He's managed just one RBI in 21 ABs and worst of all has forced Jose Molina to see far more pine-time than he deserves.
Molina leads the league in runners thrown out percentage and is said to be the best at calling a game behind the plate that Mike Mussina has ever seen.
This asinine trade shows once again the Yankee front office mentality, get a big name whether they will help the team or not, even if they are pushing 40 and arent what they used to be, at least its a big name, right?
Wrong. Ask Cashman about Carl Pavano, Kevin Brown, Raul Mondesi ect ect ect

On the Holyfield, Elsbury and Smith side of things is Theo Epstein and his Red Sox front office. Manny Ramirez's contract was comming up, he was sitting out games against the Yanks and his dreads were out of control, it was time to go.
In exchange for their 34 year old outfielder, the Sox recieve an underrated, unknown star, Jason Bay. The 29 year old former Pirate hit over 20 HRs every season as a starter, stole 43 bases and was only caught 4 times since 2004 with a career batting avg of .282. Not to mention he isnt a premodanna.
The 07 champs dump an old grumpy lazy leftfielder for a young rising star who will never crack 20 million on the payroll. The Evil Empire loses their best righthander for a worn out, retirement home catcher.

This type of deal comes as no suprise to those who have followed the Sox (which seems to be more and more with each championship, must be the team colors, right?).
Acquiring Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell, bringing in David Ortiz and keeping home grown stars like Pedroia, Elsbury and Papelbon are some major accomplishments of the Epstein era in Boston.

Cashman and the Yankee organization should be embarassed at their post 2000 moves because their lack of emphasis on bullpen and focus on getting players who used to be stars.

Likely Bay's addition and the loss of Farnsworth will have major effects on who is playing in late October