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Lifestyle,nightlifeYankees and Rays are in extras in final game of regular seasonST. PETERSBURG -- The New York Yankees helped drive a stake through the heart of one city Wednesday night and in the process, applied a rejuvenating jolt to the heart of another.By losing to the Tampa Bay Rays, they helped insure a bleak October for the Boston Red Sox, but in helping to destroy one monster, the Yankees may well have helped to create another. Ding, dong, the Red Sox are dead, which is what a lot of Yankee fans were hoping for, and what at least one columnist that I know very well insisted was a must just a week ago.Evan LongoriaAP Photo/Chris O'MearaEvan Longoria had a night to remember Wednesday. And it could turn out to be one the Yankees may want to forget.But now, having watched the Rays find their legs and their hearts and finally, the AL wild card over the course of that week, culminated by their heart-stopping 8-7 victory over the Yankees in the regular-season finale Wednesday night at The Trop, said columnist now hears the words of Derek Jeter echoing from the Yankee Stadium clubhouse last week: "I never wish to play anybody, buddy."At the time, the Red Sox looked like the perennial movie villain that the hero fails to kill off in the first reel only to have him come back, stronger, in the last reel and wage a fight to the death.Read More