Rockies Advance, Boston Comes Unglued

Can you believe it? The Colorado Rockies are on their way to their first World Series in franchise history. What a story they have been this year. It is hard not to want them to win it all, but as I said in a comment yesterday I think that the city of Cleveland is due a bit more than Denver for a World Series ring. This will be Colorado's first dance in the October classic, but the Indians haven't won it all since 1948 despite coming close a number of times in the 1990's.

Which brings me to last nights other game.

My apologies, but after a week of receiving unflattering pictures and emails from sox fans about the Yankees I need to quickly become one of those fans for a minute.

Did you see it? Did you see the way that Dice-K fell apart faster than a Jenga tower? Did you see Big Papi almost lose his manhood courtesy of Manny Ramierez? Did you hear Manny booed every time he came to the plate? Oh how wonderful it was. It wasn't the Yankees clobbering the Red Sox, in fact it wasn't a clobbering at all, but for Cleveland to hold on to a two run lead against the Red Sox offense it was just spectacular. Clearly Dice-K hasn't found his grove in the post season, in fact he was terrible all through September. There is a lot of speculation that he just isn't used to the longer season. He needs at least five days of rest just to be quasi effective and at least six to be on the top of his game....but sorry son, that just doesn't happen in October.

Assuming that it doesn't rain in Cleveland tonight Wakefield will take the mound for Boston. If I was cheering for the sox I would be nervous. Wakefield is their box of chocolates, they never know what they are going to get. Not the position you want to be in when you are down 2-1 in the ALCS. Assuming it does rain and the game is postponed Beckett will take the hill. That works out in favor for the Sox, at least for game 4. But pitching on three days rest and then potentially pitching again in game 7 will certainly have an effect on his stuff, especially if they should advance to the Series. Again, not a good position to be in when your only guaranteed pitcher is so over used his arm hurts just from scratching his head.

What a postseason so far (aside from the Yankees obviously). Who would have thought that Cleveland would be up on the Sox, who would have thought the Diamondbacks and the Rockies would have faced each other in the NLCS, and who in their right mind would have thought that Colorado would win their first seven postseason games in a row to advance to the World Series. Man I love this game.