By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Thursday, March 1, 2007

For nearly a decade now, all the attention in the American League East has been focused squarely on the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. Perhaps that's fitting, too, since from 1998-2005, the Yankees finished first and the Red Sox second every year. But in 2006, when the Yankees won the division for the ninth straight year, do you know who finished second? It was the Blue Jays, who won one more game than the Red Sox. That's right, the Blue Jays finally snapped the string of Yankees-Red Sox ...

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