Nobody's been able to do it over the past month and a half, but Boston's well on their way. With 3 runs in the 1st inning and another one in the 2nd, the Red Sox are now up 4-1 in the bottom of the 4th. What I like about this sort of start to the World Series is that it's going to force Colorado to deal with an unfamiliar situation of late: coming back from a significant deficit! This should give everyone a good idea of what they're made of (including the players themselves).
Also, I really don't want to see Colorado take Game 1 with Games 3, 4 and 5 all coming in Denver, especially after watching the Rockies come out of Arizona with a 2-0 lead in the NLCS, which ultimately set up the sweep because of the huge psychological advantage of going home for three with a good chance to end it there. Ideally, this series will either be 1-1 or 2-0 Boston as the scene shifts out west.
About the only downside that I can see to Boston winning it all is that showboat Manny Ramirez would get another ring. The rest of that team's pretty likable, as far as I'm concerned, and of course the Rockies would make for a pretty great Cinderella story if they pull off the upset. So I'm happy either way, as long as it's not another short series (the last three years, the World Series has finished in 4, 4 and 5 games... not exactly classics). We're overdue for a nail-biting seven game World Series, as were more common earlier in the decade.
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