The ALCS series was was getting a little bit too close for comfort with the defending World Champion Red Sox making a valiant comeback but the Tampa Bay Rays finished the Red Sox off and are headed to their first World Series to face the Philadelphia Phillies.

The Red Sox had their shots at returning to the World Series but injuries, poor pitching and the lack of Manny Ramirez hd the Sox playing at less than World champion pace although for where they were at this season, they did show that the team is still a contender for the 2009 season.

Congrats to all the Rays and Phillies fans out there. Tampa Bay Rays fans, don’t get too happy because the Philadelphia Phillies are going to dominate the World Series!!

It’s not suprising that one of those damn disrespectful Yankee fans was tossed by cops from Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night for trying to take a leak during “God Bless America”.

Brad Campeau-Lampion, 29, of Queens claims he was booted from Yankee Stadium for heading to the bathroom while “God Bless America” was playing on the public address system. Had he been a 79 year old man with overactive bladder syndrome it might have been considered more urgent and less disrespectful but a police spokesman said Campeau-Lampion was actually “standing on his seat cursing, using inappropriate language and acting in a disrespectful manner while reeking of alcohol.”

Could it be a Yankee fan using profanity, reeking of alcohol (before the game even had begun) and being generally belligerent in the stands? Evidently, Mr. Campeau-Lampion (possibly a French Canadian), claims the police story doesn’t hold water.

“The officer informed me that I had to wait until the song was over,” Campeau-Lampion, an information technology director from Astoria who roots for the Red Sox, told the Daily News Wednesday. “I said, ‘I don’t care about ‘God Bless America,’” he said. “Next thing I know he was pinning my arm behind my back.”

Campeau-Lampion said two officers then proceeded to escort him from the upper deck out of Yankee Stadium.

“I’ve never seen anyone handled like that unless they’ve thrown a punch,” Campeau-Lampion said. “It was a complete overreaction.”

During the melee withthe police, an unidentified bystander claims that Campeau-Lampion managed to hold his piece until he got out into the stadium parking lot where he finally relieved himself. Of course, the Yankees lost the game so it probably didn’t piss Campeau-Lampion off too much.

MLB commisioner Bud Selig will have more to think about than how he can promote the MLB in Asia. After Tuesday’s All-Star game, it’s become painfully clear the MLB desperately needs a new third league.

The simple AL/NL combination will no longer suffice and a third “Crybaby” league needs to be added for the Yankees and Red Sox to play in. In this new league, the Yankees and Red Sox would only play each other all season long culminating in a yearly Boston vs. New York World Series and they would even have their own All-Star game with teams comprised of only Yankee and Red Sox players.

TV ratings will skyrocket because the fans can kill each other in the stands not unlike a UFC battle royale. Sticks, knives, shanks, handguns and even weapons of mass destruction will be allowed into Fenway Park and Yankee stadium for the ensuing battle between the catharticly faithful. In case of a tie, Hank Steinbrenner and John Henry will be forced into a duel of honor at 50 paces with the last man standing dictating the victor.

Under this new system, the rest of the teams in the MLB will no longer be subjected to harassment by those two teams’ ill-mannered fans, nor will the other teams be forced to compete with the ridiculous payrolls both teams throw down to capture a championship.

The feuding between the two teams has hit an all-time low with the immature Yankees fans booing Red Sox players as they were announced in Tuesday night’s All-Star game but that’s enough for another topic entirely. The Red Sox dominated the AL All-star team balloting and Boston’s seven players were the most of any AL team, not including the Red Sox manager Terry Francona in the dugout along with a half-dozen of their coaches in the dugout as well.

Yankees fans were not too happy about the presence of the Sox players and they made it known but let’s face it, Red Sox fans would probably do the same thing if the game had been held at Fenway and the AL dugout were stuffed with Yankees players and coaches.

I think somebody forgot to tell Yankees and Red Sox fans that baseball is a game. Sportsmanship both on and off the field is mandatory for MLB baseball players but the fans forget that they should also have some modicum of respect for the game as the players do.