U.S. Sen. Scott Brown may be rooting for the Red Sox [team stats] against the Yankees this week, but the head of the hated Pinstripes is going to bat for Brown. 
 
 Randy Levine, president of the New York Yankees, donated the maximum $2,500 to the Massachusetts Republican’s re-election campaign last month, according to newly released campaign finance records. 
 
 That’s right, the commander of the Evil Empire is helping to pay for all those Brown ads championing his support of the Red Sox. 
 
 It’s one thing to be bipartisan, Senator, but this is taking it a little too far. There’s no compromising in baseball. 
 
 “We’re happy to accept Randy Levine’s donation,” Brown campaign spokesman Colin Reed said. “The way Scott Brown looks at it is, this is their way of paying us back for Babe Ruth.” 
 
 The Babe for Brown? Somehow I don’t think Sox fans — even those who love Brown — would take that deal. 
 
 Levine is the embodiment of everything we hate about the Yankees. He’s described as arrogant and brash, and is the chief henchman of the Steinbrenner family, according to reports. Oh yeah, one of his chief goals every year is to destroy the Red Sox. 
 
 Brown, meanwhile, is openly trying to win over the hearts of Sox fans — and voters — in his tough re-election fight against Democrat Elizabeth Warren. 
 
 Last week, the GOP incumbent began airing a radio ad heaping praise on Fenway Park [map] and the team owners, finishing with “Go Red Sox!” A few days ago, the campaign aired a web video featuring Brown standing outside Fenway Park in a Red Sox jacket, greeting fans. Now, it turns out, the president of the Yankees helped pay for those ads. 
 
 If you’re scoring at home, that’s E-Incumbent. 
 
 Brown also committed an error last week after it was revealed that as a state senator in 2001, he tried to arrange a meeting with the Red Sox and Patriots [team stats] owner Robert Kraft to move the Sox out of Fenway to Foxboro. 
 
 Warren has also made a few Red Sox missteps, failing to recall the years the team won the World Series. Levine’s donation may seem trivial to Brown supporters, but don’t forget it was a Red Sox blunder that helped torpedo Attorney General Martha Coakley’s campaign against Brown in 2010. Coakley made the mistake of calling Curt Schilling [stats] a Yankees fan. 
 
 Levine doesn’t play on the baseball field, but he is a big player in politics. He used to be an aide to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and he’s a big fundraiser for another huge Red Sox fan, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Levine contributed $2,500 to Romney’s campaign and $5,000 to Romney’s political action committee, Free and Strong America PAC, last year. 
 
 Now the Yankees honcho is playing for Scott Brown’s team. 
 
 What’s next, a Derek Jeter endorsement? 

 WASHINGTON -- Sen. Scott Brown is up with a new radio ad touting his personal affection for and support of the famed Fenway Park, which is celebrating its 100th year as home to the Boston Red Sox. 
 
 The ad tugs on all the emotional threads that bind New Englanders to their beloved team, from the park's layout to its lengthy history. But it also glosses over a contentious moment in Fenway's past -- the time when lawmakers, including a state representative named Scott Brown, attempted to move it. 
 
 "You know there's been a lot of talk over the years about replacing the park," the ad's narrator says. "But that would have been a mistake. John Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino deserve credit for improving what we have instead of starting over somewhere else. Families throughout the years will never forget their first Fenway appearance." 
 
 Those hearing the ad would have little clue that Brown himself was among those who participated in that "talk ... about replacing the park." In early January 2001, he asked New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to consider a proposal that would move Fenway next to the Patriots' complex in Foxboro. 
 
 "Exploring the possibility of a Red Sox relocation to Foxboro makes fiscal and economic sense," Brown wrote at the time. He was far from the only political figure in the state who, before new ownership came in, basically dismissed Fenway's future in Boston. 
 
 The financing of sports stadiums can prove to be tricky politics. But politicians in Massachusetts face unique sensitivities when it comes to Fenway Park. Brown himself witnessed this when his opponent in his first Senate race, State Attorney General Martha Coakley, saw her campaign implode after she downplayed the need to shake hands outside the stadium and made several other Red Sox-related gaffes. 
 
 Asked for comment about the radio ad, Brown's spokesman Colin Reed emailed, "As Scott Brown says in the ad, the talk about moving Fenway was a mistake, and the John Henry ownership team deserves credit for their decision to stay put."
– Scott Brown has a deal with a devil—the devil who wears pinstripes. The Massachusetts senator, who has touted his Red Sox fandom in radio and TV ads, last month got a $2,500 donation from Randy Levine, the president of the New York Yankees, the Boston Herald reports, in a story dramatically titled, "Scott Brown Taps Evil Empire." Writer Joe Battenfeld declares it "E-Incumbent," calling Levine "the embodiment of everything we hate about the Yankees." Brown's campaign says he was happy to accept Levine's donation. "The way Scott Brown looks at it is, this is their way of paying us back for Babe Ruth," a spokesman said. Battenfeld was unimpressed. "The Babe for Brown? Somehow I don't think Sox fans—even those who love Brown—would take that deal." It's not Brown's only Sox-related snafu either; last week the Huffington Post discovered that he'd once suggested (another gasp!) abandoning Fenway Park.