World Series Game 4: Say Goodnight, Gracie - Page 2

(By the way, the porter definitely killed the bartender with the high-heeled shoe, but neither will remember it now, will they?)

Fortunately for Fox, the Rockies, and most of the viewing audience Sunday night, sports have this delicious tendency to work without a safety net. The media attempts to stitch together a narrative for each sporting event and a role for every actor, but sometimes they defy all attempts to classify them and create the excitement of the unknown.

Brad Hawpe tried to work as a scab in the seventh Sunday evening as he crushed his first hit over the right field wall and into the Denver night, attempting to rewrite the Rockies' role as pushovers and maybe expand the part into another episode or two. Mike Timlin came on, though, and helped Troy Tulowitzki play his part as overmatched rookie on the big stage. Tulowitzki went down swinging for the third time in Game Four and Bobby Kielty (heroic unknown) thumped a ball over the left field wall a few minutes later to seemingly put the game well out of reach.

Garrett Atkins, addicted to the playoff share, also earned himself a story producer credit when he sent Hideki Okajima to the bench as a home run victim for the second night in a row, tightening the game to 4-3 in the eighth. However, Jonathan Papelbon polished the C on his chest and strode out of the Coors Field bullpen as The Closer and shut down the Rockies in the eighth and ninth on a series of dramatically deep fly balls to complete the four-game set and send Dinger to 2007 extinction.

With this win, the Red Sox played out a tired storyline any WGA member would be ashamed to pen (unless the points were good): the well-funded major power succeeds against very good odds without much conflict or additional character development. This is why there have been approximately six thousand Cold War movies and about six perestroika films.

Article Author: Tuffy

Tuffy cares about you. While others have neglected you, Tuffy has not forgotten you. Just lie back and think of Tuffy. Tuffy keeps his work at Refrigerator Logic at 40 degrees F.

Visit Tuffy's author page — Tuffy's Blog