Meh, no big deal, right? I mean, who needs METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH, and ANTHRAX when we here in Boston have BACKSTREET BOYS and the effing NEW KIDS coming to Fenway Park this summer? Take that, House That Steinbrenner built.

Now, while I know there is no love for anything Yankee-related 'round these parts, it would be pretty cool if Mariano Rivera walked on stage to the opening chords of Metallica's "Enter Sandman," as he does before closing out games in the Bronx.

It doesn't get any more metal than that. For the sake of sidestepping repetition, I'm just going to throw that sentence out there this one time and you can mentally insert it following every sentence from here on out. Because when it comes down to it, it really doesn't get any more metal than Saturday's clinic in thrash at the Tsongas Center by way of Slayer and Megadeth.