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A Nice Halloween Gift

I did not watch a single pitch of the World Series this year. Why would I watch a series played between two teams that I loath? Nope. Not a single pitch.

I did check the scores each day to see if the team I hate more than the other team I hate lost. Last night before I went to bed I checked the score and the team I hate the most was winning again. Shit.

Today is Halloween. Happy Halloween!

As I was getting ready to start my morning routine I checked the score again. The Dodgers came back and took the lead in the eighth inning and won the game and won the World Series! I hate the Dodgers, but they are practically family compared the the fucking Yankees.

The Yankees lost!
The Yankees lost!
Happy Halloween everybody, the Yankees lost!

Dodgers or Giants

I’ve been hyper focused on the Red Sox this season and I haven’t really given any thought to any of the other teams. Now that the Red Sox are in the ALCS (game one is tomorrow, Chris Sale is starting and I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not) I should probably take a look at who else is left. The National League Division Series will end tonight. It’s game five between the Giants and the Dodgers.

These two teams had the best win/loss records in the majors this year. The Giants finished at 107-55, just ahead of the Wild Card winning Dodgers who were 106-56. I don’t want to get ahead of things for the Red Sox. The chances of beating Houston in a seven game series are pretty slim. Still… who do I want to see come out of the NL? The Braves are already into the NLCS but they just earned the right to get their asses kicked by whoever wins tonight’s game.

The Dodgers were the team we beat in the 2018 World Series. They did come back to win it all in what passed for a season last year. Yippee for them. It would be fun to face them again, but they have Mookie Betts now. Do I really want to face Mookie?

As for the Giants… they were the better team this year, but I am thinking it might be time for some payback. Allow me to explain how they insulted the Red Sox so thoroughly…

In 1903 there was no Major League Baseball. There were two major professional leagues that were not actually associated to each other. The National League was older and had more clout. The American League was newer and generally considered inferior. That year, an agreement was made to have the winner of each league play each other in what was to be called the World Series. The Pittsburgh Pirates were the NL champs, and the Boston Americans (who eventually became the Red Sox) won the AL. They played a best of nine series and Boston won in eight games.

In 1904 it was expected that there would be another World Series. Boston won the AL pennant again, and the New York Giants won the NL. The owner of the Giants refused to let his team participate because he thought the American League was not worthy, even though the American League team had won the year before. The fans were royally pissed off and over the off season the agreement between the two leagues was formalized and the World Series became an official thing.

So in 1904 the Giants screwed the Red Sox out of a World Series. The New York Giants moved to San Francisco and tonight they are playing the Dodgers, another New York expatriate, for the right to stomp Atlanta in the NLDS.

I don’t know about the rest of Red Sox Nation, but I’m still pretty pissed off about 1904 and I really like the idea of getting some effin’ payback.

Still… it’s way too early to think about any of this. Whoever wins tonight wins and moves on. The Red Sox need to focus on the Astros and not worry about anything going on in that other league.

Okay, in closing I should give Atlanta the benefit of the doubt. If I write them off now it pretty much guarantees they will win. I’ve mentioned tenuous connections to Los Angeles and San Francisco (all I really needed to focus on was that they are both originally from New York which makes me hate them almost as much as I hate the Yankees), so what about Atlanta?

Well this one is the most obvious. Atlanta is the reason my fellow Bostonians and I do not have a National League team of our own. Before they were in Atlanta, the Braves were in Milwaukee. Before they were in Milwaukee… they were in Boston. They left us. They slipped away in the night and left us without an NL team. I personally would have loved to have an NL team in town. I would have been a Red Sox fan first and foremost, but I would have rooted for the Braves too. I would have gone to Braves games when the Sox were on the road. Absolutely I would have. But no… they left… and I will never forgive them. The jerks.

Well That’s Just Great

This week has seen the end of American democracy, and now tonight we’re learning that the Red Sox have agreed to trade Mookie Betts to the Dodgers.

Well isn’t that special?  Maybe the universe can just come over here and kick me in the balls while it’s at it?

Thanks, Dodgers

I’d like to thank the Los Angeles Dodgers for rolling over and playing dead last night in game six of the NLCS. I know I said that I wanted the Cardinals to win the series, and yes the Dodgers’ suck fest last night gave the series to St Louis. That’s true, but I also wanted the Red Sox to start at 4:00 today and that required a Dodgers win. So thanks for nothing, Dodgers.

Red Sox vs Tigers tonight at 8:00 from Fenway Park. A Red Sox win clinches the series and punches our tickets to the World Series.

Win it tonight, Red Sox.

Championship Series

Do I suck at predicting the outcome of playoff series in baseball? You betcha. Do I care? Nope. Why? Because the one series I picked correctly involved the Red Sox winning. Who gives a toss about the rest of the league when the Red Sox win.

I was 1 of 2 in the wild card games. That is not good. I was 1 of 4 in the Divisional series. That flat out sucks.

I picked the Red Sox over the Rays. Thank the baseball gods I was right.

I picked the A’s over the Tiggers. Nope.
I picked the Pirates over the Cardinals. Nope.
I picked the Braves over the Dodgers. Nope.

That puts me at 2 out of 6. I am wrong 2/3 of the time. Again, who cares so long as the Sox keep winning.

Here are my picks for the League Championship Series.

Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers. Obviously I am picking the Red Sox, but that Tiggers pitching staff scares the holy hell out of me. The only possible chance for Boston is that Detroit had to use their two stud starters in games four and five against Oakland, and maybe there is a chance that we won’t have to face at least one of them twice. Slim chance. Really, no chance. Still, I have faith in the Red Sox. I believe in the beards. The Red Sox will rise to the challenge and take the series, although it’s probably going to be in seven supremely painful games.

St. Louis Cardinals vs Los Angeles Dodgers. I hate the Dodgers. At the same time, I keep finding myself forced to back the Cardinals and while they have come through, they have also let me down. Still… I freakin’ hate the Dodgers. I am going to pick the Cards once again in the hopes of getting a rematch of the 2004, 1967, and 1946 World Series. Sure the Red Sox lost two of those three match ups, but they won the most recent one, and winning this year would even up the history. That would be nice, eh?

Here’s to a Boston/St. Louis World Series… again.