World Series 2007!

This years World Series looks to be as good as any of the others. While the Rockies are not the Yankees, they have recently played like the Yankees of old. Over the last 21 games the Rockies have gone 20-1. However, the Boston Redsox began to beat teams that play Yankees’ caliber ball, starting in 2004. That fall the Redsox beat the Yankees and reached the World Series for the first time since trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees.

While the Rockies have looked like they are Yankee-esq, they are far from being the team to dethrone the Redsox this year. The AL won the all-star game in July and thus Boston will have the home field advantage for this series. For the first two games, and, based on my upcoming prediction, the 6th game of the series, Colorado will have to deal with using a DH. This may not seem like a deal, however the BoSox stack their lineup with not only a heavy hitting group of fielders, but also with a powerhouse that hits only. David Ortiz focuses solely on hitting, while no matter whom the Rockies add to replace their pitcher in the lineup, no one on the Rockies is a hitter all the time. Not to mention the fact that the players available to the Colorado manager are bench warmers, people who can not play the field, much less are not hitting everyday. Without the bats you cant score runs, the Rockies just don’t have the bats for this match up.

The Boston Redsox have been here before. The Colorado Rockies, well, not in a long time! That isn’t everything; however the lack of experience is a problem. How can you have a leader step up and rally your team when you get down if he hasn’t seen these situations before? When you end up heading for your home field down in the series 0-2, who will step to the plate and say “I have been here before and this is how we have to handle the situation”? The answer- No One! The Rockies do not have the experience needed to pull on their past games and situations.

These two items can not be measured in stats, and that’s a good thing. It’s what you can’t measure that wins you ball games. The stats tend to favor one team over the other, but at this point the stats you have had to put up to earn a chance to play in the world series, are so even with your opponent, that you can rely on them at all. Not to mention this is baseball, comparing stats doesn’t work. The wrong guy can have a good game; the right pitcher can have a tingle that throws off his arm. The slightest change in the game shifts momentum like in no other sport. Based on intangibles the BoSox win their second title in three years.

The Mind’s Pick:
Boston has a 67% chance of beating Colorado for the World Series Title. Here’s how they do it~

Boston wins first two at home
Colorado wins two at home and loses the third
Boston wins game six at home and takes the series 4-2

Boston over Colorado (4-2)