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WBZ reports that Endicott College in Beverly will host a celebration of the World Series–winning New York Yankees. Slated to involve a pinstriped fire hydrant, the celebration is described to WBZ by president Dick Wylie as a way to teach "tolerance." However, WHDH describes the event as the result of a bet between Wylie and a Red Sox fan on campus. How a Yankees fan got to be president of a Massachusetts school is somewhat beyond us, but even further beyond us how Beverly is located "10 minutes" from Boston, as one Endicott student describes it. Most of Boston isn't even 10 minutes from the rest of Boston, for Chrissake.

--Total commuter hell broke out today with a tractor rollover that blocked the Mass Pike, along with dodginess on the Blue Line that left, according to one individual, "hundreds of people" stranded at the Airport T stop. [WHDH, b0st0n LiveJournal]

Some alleged boneheads should have their Red Sox Nation cards revoked, and we're not talking about Hank Steinbrenner. In a scary incident reported in the Cambridge Chronicle, a man wearing Yankees attire got beat up outside the Cantab Lounge in Central Square early Sunday morning. From the Chronicle:

Coming from someone who liberally threw around the "traitor" and "judas" labels, among others, Bostonist should probably be the last one to talk about how much of a raw deal Mr. Damon got from the crowd last night. But when you hear that one of the most beloved players on your team decided to sign with the enemy, of course there will be a knee-jerk reaction. Of course you'll call home names—and probably names worse...

The Red Sox are making their way through a series with Tampa Bay before they come back home to take on the Yanks. It is still a long haul until we start getting nervous about every time they lose a game (which they’ve been doing a lot of lately). There have been a few items of Red Sox news this past week that don’t actually relate to baseball:

As of this morning, the Boston Red Sox and their prodigy General Manager Theo Epstein still had not yet agreed on a contract extension for the 31-year old baseball prodigy.

Bostonist has learned a new word this morning: Ring-gate. When the Red Sox took home the World Series title in October, Boston was ecstatic. Bostonians got even more excited when the week after the game was won, we learned that the Sox would be receiving their World Series' rings on Opening Day April 11, which just happened to be against the New York Yankees. The season would start with a bang as the boys would grin from ear to ear with their shiny new rings as Jeter and A-Rod would pout (this is what Bostonist is picturing of course). While the ring ceremony was supposedly a done deal, the front office has been dancing around the issue recently, claiming that fans just jumped to conclusions that the ceremony would be Opening Day. Sox EVP Charles Steinberg mentioned having a separate ring ceremony to benefit the Red Sox Foundation. This caused hundreds of calls to the Red Sox office last week, with fans furious over the talk of changing the date. Even the players themselves have announced they want to get their rings against the Evil Empire. Steinberg has the final say, which is supppose to be announced today or tomorrow...but Bostonist must ask, would New York move the ceremony date if Boston were there in the visitors' dugout?