When did the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry turn from friendly to deadly? On Friday, May 2, that’s when.

It’s one thing to support your favorite sports team. It’s another thing to take a vehicle, plow it into a group of people, and kill someone because you think your team is better than the other one. I don’t care if the group was chanting “Yankees Su*k”, as has been suggested. I don’t care if they were taunting her with the 2008 World Series Trophy. Ms. Hernandez, who is now sitting in the pokey for her actions, had a responsibility (drunk or not) to walk away from the situation. It wouldn’t have hurt if she had called a cab either.

I’ll admit that I’m a Red Sox fan but I think I can speak for most of Red Sox Nation when I say that I have a great deal of respect for the Yankees legacy. I would never have so much as a shouting match with a Yankees fan. I might poke some fun and expect to have some fun poked back at me over wins and losses, players and plays. But it’s something else to have a violent confrontation over a game.  It is just a game. 

Ivonne Hernandez, 43, is facing charges of reckless second degree murder for the death of 29-year old Matthew Beaudoin. He died of massive head trauma after Hernandez rammed her car – at full speed and without hitting the brakes - into the group of people that Beaudoin was with. Hernandez now faces life in prison. Way to go.