Bob, I want the Sox to win. They were the team of my youth and so I always enjoy cheering them on. However, I remain cynical of the whole system. Call me a conspiracy nut but I believe the winner has already been chosen. Last night's game was proof.
The Rockies have been a winning machine, unstoppable. The country wants to see them win. They could easily win in 4 games BUT that wouldn't sell many commercials would it. Hence, the Illuminati or Trilaterals or Skull & Bones or whomever is running the world of power politics determined that the Sox would win the first game, maybe even the second. This will shock everyone and make folks think the Sox can go all the way. Obviously it's going to go 7 games, each team trading wins, and the Rockies will be the victors. It will just sell more commercials this way.
I also think it's obscene the way the powers that be have moved these games to start so late. When I was in middle school, our little 4 room school house stopped and TVs were brought in to each classroom and we watched Yaz, Boomer Scott, Jim Lonborg, Reggie Smith, Kenny Herrelson, Rico Petrocelli, and the rest of the Beantown Bombers ALMOST beat the Cardinals for the Series. It made true and hearty fans. Now it's all about the money and politics.
Signed, a sadder but wiser Red Sox fan. (To be fair, I've never recovered from the jading I incurred from Bill Buckner's error in game 6 of the '86 series. Oh the humanity, arrrrgh.)
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