What is making me angry is a quote that Simmons wrote in his mailbag yesterday and a common perception in Bristol CT and throughout the left and right coast.
"No matter how much you love baseball, it's nearly impossible to care about the Colorado-Arizona series. You might watch it, you might enjoy it, you might even gamble on it ... but unless you're an absolute baseball nut or a Rockies/D-backs fan, how could you honestly care who wins when neither franchise is older than Jamie-Lynn Spears? It's like going to a wedding in which you don't know anything about the bride or the groom. "
Ok, so the fact that a team has come from being a sub .500 team for almost all of its franchise history. And is now on an unbelievable streak of winning 18 of its last 19 games and is streaking more than Mighty after three bottles of Manischewitz during his brother's Bar Mitzvah. Does that not in the least make you feel good and feel like in baseball anything can happen. What surprises me about this is that people haven't jumped onto this story. It is the quintessental David vs. Goliath story. If it was the Pirates who had shitty teams for the past few years and then made a World Series run, would we jump on their bandwagon since they have been around since the age of Grover Cleveland? That is just a stupid argument.
Who could not love the story in Colorado? You have a team that exemplifies the way that baseball should be played. You have a team that has 6 of its starting lineups and its closer that were drafted by the Rockies and came up in the Rockies organization. They weren't overpaid for in order to win a World Series, they earned it coming up through the organization. What is not to like about the story. How many of the Red Sox actually came from their organization? Two. Oh and someone that they spent about the entire team budget of the Rockies just to talk to in Dice-K. That worked out fabulously. When I think of the greats of the game, I think of players that came up with a certain organization and continued through that organization until they retire. That is how baseball should be.
I really hope (sorry Clevelanders) that Boston and Colorado make it to the World Series and Colorado sweeps the Red Sox. In this fantasy, Josh Beckett gets an infection of his soul patch, Curt Schilling has to be quiet for 5 minutes, Dice-K has to feed sushi through a straw, that David Ortiz gets caught in an avalanche and has to actually move his fat ass to get himself out of it, that Varitek has to endure being on Simmons podcast and that Manny has get sent down to the SuperMax facility Florence and be in the same room with the Blind Shiek, Ted Kazcinski and Simmons to listen to his whiney voice talk about some obscure ritual that he does with his friends who we don't care about in Vegas.
Oh and another thing that he mention was worrying about Ortiz in the thin air. We don't have thin air out here. Mt. Everest is in thin air, Denver has the same amount of oxygen as a retiree conference of ex-Marlboro employees. I smoked Pall Mall non-filters for ten years during the war...I run around 3 miles a day now, it doesn't affect me. I think that a professional athlete who gets paid millions of dollars to be in shape can deal with the air even if you are a fat slob like David Ortiz.
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