Both teams are going to the playoffs. You decide which team the other teams is the AL DO NOT want to meet in the playuffs, I’ll guarentee you, the Angels want no part of the Red Sox in the first or ANY round, I think it comes back to NY against Boston in the ALCS, the winner taking whatever the NL has left over after their own playoffs for the world championship.
Its interesting that in this decade, the Yankees and Red Sox have no fear of each other. But I think both teams would rather play someone else in the ALCS.
The Yanks would far rather play the Bosox than the Angels in the ALCS -- (far) less travel, and the Angels have been a playoff (and reg season) nemesis for 7 years now. Plus the Yanks have some major unfished biz with Boston -- revenge for '04.