George A. King III of The New York Post says because of the FOX network, the New York Yankees were scheduled to play the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles as opposed to the original plan of the series being in the Bronx. Several of King’s sources say that the original 2010 schedule had the Dodgers playing the Yankees in New York which would make sense because the last time the two teams met in 2004, the Dodgers also hosted the Yankees.

FOX wanted Manny Ramirez in Boston last weekend for the first time since leaving the Red Sox over Torre’s reunion at Yankee Stadium. Because of the messy 2008 divorce, many thought the Yankees did not want Torre to return.

“I know for a fact the Yankees wanted to play the Dodgers at home. That is a fact,” a source with knowledge of the scheduling not connected to the Dodgers or Yankees told The Post yesterday. “It was at a time when the Yankees were having trouble selling some of their seats, and they know how big of a weekend it would be.

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