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A Winter of Discontent: Red Sox-Yankees Overdrive To Follow Underwhelming Series

Zach Baker — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:50:39 EDT

So the Red Sox won the World Series and the Yankees will have a new manager. I envy the groundhog.
And so, the baseball season ends the way it began: With people talking about the Red Sox and Yankees. This two-headed monster always seems to loom over all baseball discussion, and it will be stronger than ever Monday.The Red Sox polished off a sweep of the Colorado Rockies in the World Series Sunday night in Denver; the Yankees are set to hire...

World Series Game 4: Say Goodnight, Gracie

Tuffy — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:31:30 EDT

The Boston Red Sox drain all the suspense from the 2007 postseason but not the 2007 offseason.
"Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired." - William GoldmanBy November 1, two important entertainment deadlines shall come to pass: the Writers Guild of...

World Series Game 3: Tales of the Boston Red Sox

Tuffy — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:39:37 EDT

Wherein the World Series ceases to become must see TV.
In 1974, James Michener had Centennial published. In typical Michener fashion, the novel about a small patch of northeast Colorado begins at the formation of the Rocky Mountains and gradually moves forward through prehistory, Native American experiences, early settlers, and so on through the present day. This is why Michener novels are strictly...

World Series: Rockies Chances Fogg-y At Best

Zach Baker — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:08:08 EDT

Josh Fogg is the last chance at a competitive series. It's like asking Woody Allen to bench press 500 pounds.
You want to believe in the Colorado Rockies. You want to think they will come back, and if not win the World Series, then at least make it interesting. And let's face it. Only Red Sox fans want to see the World Series end in four or five games. So the question is: After two games in which the Rockies have scored just two runs, can they find their...

World Series Game 2: Abracadabra!

Tuffy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:14:04 EDT

The Rockies fall behind two games when their magic finally leaves them.
Harry Houdini could well have shown a grudging respect for the Rockies' escapology this fall, from wriggling free of a 4.5 game deficit for the Wild Card (with many teams ahead of them) to the Hand of God plating by Matt Holliday in the play-in game through the series of optical illusions that placed Colorado's darling in the World Series.Game 1 of...

World Series: Red Sox Will Probably Sweep Rockies

Tan The Man — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:11:16 EDT

The only hope for Colorado is for Clint Hurdle to take a radical approach: don't start a starting pitcher.
With another win over the National League Champion Colorado Rockies, the American League Champion Boston Red Sox are only two wins away from winning their second World Series in four years after 86 previous years of disappointment.Thursday night's 2-1 victory gives the BoSox a commanding series lead over what was the hottest team in baseball. It's...

World Series Game 1: The Long Goodbye

Tuffy — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:10:03 EDT

A musical tribute to the beatdown administered by the Red Sox to the Rockies in Game One.
Well, that was anticlimactic.After the unusual World Series opening provided by composer John Williams and his rendition of the national anthem (what, no Olympic theme?), the Boston Red Sox played the Star Wars "Imperial March" right through the Rockies in Game 1 last night. There wasn't a dry bone (or Rockies' fan's eye)...

World Series Game 1: One Game (One Bad Game, But... )

Zach Baker — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:06:45 EDT

On the scale of bad Game One's, this was an 11.
It's easy, as an Indians fan, to feel a little bitter about the World Series right now.The Red Sox beat my favorite team, and honestly, deserved to beat my favorite team. Because Cleveland got so close to the World Series, there is a temptation to ignore the Fall Classic, and focus on football and whatever else.But if you love baseball, that's not...

Why God Wants the Boston Red Sox to Win the World Series

Tuffy — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:45:42 EDT

A player-by-player list of reasons why The Big Guy wants the Red Sox to win it all.
Yesterday's piece on the Rockies' special relationship with the Man Upstairs (no, not Norman Fell) caused a national crisis. Women rended their garments; men wept uncontrollably. How could it be possible that Our Lord and Savior would choose the li'l team from Denver over the Boston Red Sox? The protests could be seen on every major...

Why God Wants the Colorado Rockies to Win the World Series

Tuffy — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:02:24 EDT

A player-by-player list of reasons why The Big Guy wants the Rockies to win it all.
As previously seen here on Blogcritics Nights, religion ends up in our sports in odd and unsatisfying ways that are less like an errant bar of chocolate jutting out of our jar of peanut butter and more like the understandable but unfortunate mistake a child makes when attempting to create peanut butter from scratch using its component words. ...