The World Series is on! Is the nine-day break for Colorado going to kill their momentum and will the Red Sox use their come-from-behind win to spur them to a second championship?

In response to the carefully worded topic of the week, I would like to clarify something: The National League SUCKS! The unbelievable and never before seen streak of the Mojo-bearing Colorado Rockies was not a testament to Colorado’s skill but to the paucity of the competition in the National League.

Of all the teams in history, how could the Rockies have the most amazing streak of all time to finish a season? 
Prominent high spending teams such as the Dodgers and the Cubs foundered at .500 records. Don’t let the Cubs appearance in the play-offs fool you - the National League Central was so bad the Cubs and Brewers were the only teams in their division to crack .500, and just barely with $200m in new player contracts.

'The unbelievable and never before seen streak of the Mojo-bearing Colorado Rockies was not a testament to Colorado’s skill but to the paucity of the competition in the National League'


And another high priced National League team, the New York Mets, was responsible for one of the biggest collapses in history (sorry Mets fans and players, the Rockies' amazing run does not erase your historic meltdown of blowing a six game lead in a matter of days to blow first place and fall out of the play-offs).

The National League division champions were a bunch of no names: there is not more than one or two players that even baseball experts could name on the Rockies before the season, and there still is not more than one or two players anybody could name on the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team the Rockies swept in four straight play-off games to make the World Series.

Meanwhile, in the American League, you had teams that embodied all the skills of baseball. The Yankees had All-Star hitters all the way through the line-up. The Angels had speed, aggressive base runners, and were fundamentally flawless playing Little Ball to make the most of what they had. The Indians and Red Sox both had overpowering starting pitching to go along with the heavy hitters.

Further (and the reason they are going to win the Series), the Red Sox have two bonafide post season performers in star Josh Beckett, who is a gifted young pitcher at 27, whose vast experience and high level of performance in the post season is something even most grizzled veterans can only dream about, and Curt Schilling, an old pro who is also virtually unbeatable in the post season with a 10-3 career record.

They of course also have two most monster post season hitters in Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, plus another two tough clutch hitters in Mike Lowell and Kevin Youklis, and a hot rookie in Dustin Pedroia, etc etc.

And they have Fenway Park, possibly the most unfriendly and unique confines of a visiting team, with its imposing, larger than life Green Monster in left field, an almost hundred-year-old wall whose distance from home plate constitutes a routine fly ball from home but whose top stretches over a hundred feet into the air.   This translates to a legendary mystique for the Bosox, one of the oldest teams in the league at over 100 years old.

Then on the other side we have the Rockies, the owners of the "Mojo:" the greatest season-ending streak of all time in any American sport, who play on a launching pad of inflated statistics, where hitters routinely produce ¾ of their season's hitting output, even though they play half their games on the road.

The theory is that the thinner air makes it easier for fly balls to carryout of the stadium. And if you look at the bums who have put up superstar numbers there in the past such as Vinnie Castilla who couldn’t hit water if he fell out of bucket (and proved it by several anemic years on other teams), or other decent players such as Larry Walker and Ellis Burks who suddenly turned into Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth when they went there, you can see where I am going with this:

The spacey Rockies don’t stand a chance against the awesome Red Sox. I shudder to think what kind of numbers the Red Sox hitters will put up in Rockie Stadium. For those of you who think that Fenway is hitter friendly, wait till you see the launching pad in the thin air of Colorado!

Ortiz and Manny? Either could break the individual record for most homers in a Series (5) in two games there! Technically, they could have three games there if Colorado manages to win a game, to which I say very fat chance.

By the way, you know why the Red Sox have the home field advantage?  Because the American League won the All-Star Game this year as it has every year for the last decade! Forget the steroid home run records, forget the overpaid free agents! The real joke in baseball this year is the disparity between the leagues!

Granted, a mediocre Cardinal team representing the National League won the Series last year (by the way, the worst record ever for a World Series champion, thank you national League), but that was only because the Detroit pitchers threw the game away, literally, making throwing errors in the field at every crucial turning point of each game.

Anyone who knows anything about baseball knows that Red-Sox-Indians was the real World Series. The fact that Colorado won 21 out of their last 22 games saved the National League playoffs, because otherwise nobody would have cared.

The Rockies are a great story, but it’s just a fairytale. The mojo is broken, trampled 13-1 in Game 1 by Josh Beckett and the Red Sox hitters and the greater Fenway Park mystique.

Mystique is a magical thing, until it comes up against sheer overpowering levels of skill. The only thing that could beat the Red Sox is a ghost: the Red Sox have managed all manner of bizarre and unexpected plays to give away championships in the past, waiting almost 90 years between championships.

However, even the combined forces of ghosts of the past and the present will be no match for the tangible accomplishments of the postseason monsters on the Red Sox.

And the American (Major) league will continue to make the National League look like minor leaguers. Josh, Manny, David and company will give Boston a nice party to keep them warm for those bitter winters, while in Colorado the fun is just beginning:

You should see the ski slopes out there. Try surviving a black double diamond downhill path on Vail. Now that’s a streak!