If the Sox Win, Free Furniture For All!!

Things are good right now, very good. The Sox are once again back in the (ONE and ONLY) Fall Classic, and as far as I’ve heard there was not one single arrest, injury, assault, or near paralization (not a real word) due to jumping off a building at UMass after game seven of the LCS.

Before Sunday night was officially done and over everyone was shying away from coming out and saying it, but going into game seven you just had that feeling there was no way the Sox were losing this game. I wrote about it a few weeks ago, about the swagger the Sox had, the not-so-quite confidence they exuded as a team. They had it after they won the East, had it after they handily swept the Angles in three, had it after game one against the Indians, (sorta lost it there for three games against the Indians) and they definitely had it going into game seven of the LCS. You knew a few things going into that seventh game; 1) You knew Diasuke was getting pulled at the first sign of a trouble 2) You knew that our bullpen would be called upon to hold down the fort (related to #1, but still this was big) 3. You knew that guys other than Ortiz and Manny were going to have to come up big if we were going to win and 4) and you knew that Danny Mac was going to write a Running Simmons…errr I mean a Running Diary of the game. For the most part, things happened as planned, and the Sox did what they were supposed to do, they beat the Indians and got back to the World Series.

Speaking of the World Series….I’ve been babbling for 300 something words and have yet to even mention our opponents. That would be the Rockies of Colorado, and I haven’t mentioned them mostly because before last Sunday I could only name four, maybe five of them. This is sad considering I went to a game against Colorado this past June at Fenway, and as far as I remember I was relatively sober. That June series by the way, when the Rockies took two out of three, means NOTHING in this series. Do you think that Beckett will be thinking about his June loss to the Rockies tonight? The guy lives for reasons to get pumped up, after his smoking hot ex girlfriend sang the national anthem at the LCS he went out and destroyed the Indians. Just like our buddy B-rock seems to rise to the occasion and do something to blow us away every time we visit Amherst, Beckett rises to whatever the occasion calls. As good as Beckett has been this post season, the Rockies still have a solid line up (or so I’ve been hearing lately). During a recent conversation with my boy Leps we talked about the hitters on the Rockies, from what I remember he was pretty worried about the power hitters of Colorada, namely Dante Bichette, Vinny Castilla and Larry Walker. I actually think he might have said something about Helton and Holliday, two slugger at different phases of their careers, but both equally capable of doing some serious damage in this series. Really though, without naming a bunch of names you won’t recognize and I can’t spell, let me just say the Sox have the edge in every possible heads up match up I can think of. From hitting to pitching, to team announcers, team mascots (Kevin Millar for Boston), to Ballparks and Cities, the Boston Red Sox have the edge. You can’t win on just edges, though, you need some luck, a few breaks, and big plays from the guys you least expect (witness grand slam: JD Drew).

I still like the Sox to win it in 6. I’m also taking the easy road and saying that Beckett wins two games and wins the MVP. I also have a feeling that behind Lowell, Ortiz, and Youk, JD DREW is going to come up big at one point or another in this series. So those are my picks, and real quick, here are Danny’s: Sox in Three, Trot Nixon as MVP (honorable mention goes to Kevin Millar)