Its been awhile since their was a World Series worth watching. Regardless of the fact that the Red Sox 2004 world series win was indeed historic, the past 3 Fall classics have seen two 4 game sweeps and a pretty lackluster 5 game series between the Cards and Tigers.
Even if your not a sports fan you have to take notice of one the most historic and unprecedented underdog stories that has led the Colorado Rockies to the World Series. Long story short, the Rockies chances of making the playoffs were on life support with just two weeks to go in the season. Actually scratch that, the Colorado Rockies were on their regular season death bed with talk of funeral arrangements, organ transplants, with a hand about to jerk out the plug.
Miraculously the mediocre Rockies played perfect baseball the final two weeks of the season only losing one game down the stretch. But would it be enough? The Padres did their part by losing 4 game in a row with a week left in the season but rallied to get within one game of clinching the last spot into the playoffs. They never got it. Shockingly the games best closer, Trevor Hoffman, was unable to notch a save in the second to last game of the year to secure the playoff spot.
3 days later in a Wild Card tie breaker, Hoffman had the chance to redeem himself with a two run lead in the the 13th inning against the pesky Rockies. The Rockies had defied incredible odds by winning 13 of its last 14 games and were able to overcome two of the best pitchers in all of baseball (Jake Peavy and Hoffman) to cap an amazing run into the playoffs.
I wanted to write about them after that historic win, one that may go down as one of the greatest games of the decade, but chose to wait it out. 7 games later and 7 wins later the Rockies are now in the World Series. They have now won 20 of their last 21 games and find themselves 4 wins away from the most remarkable and unlikely championships in the history of modern sports. Essentially a month ago I would have said that the new television Cavemen would have been more likely to receive an Emmy than the Rockies were to win the world series.
The Rockies now find themselves in a familiar position as underdogs as Vegas has them as a pretty big underdog to the Red Sox with many weary of how the Rockies will handle the new challenges of reacting to a full week off of a scheduled games in addition to weather conditions affecting their ability to practice.
My head tells me that this fairy tale story will most likely end with disappointment. Regardless I will tune in and so will Millions who weren’t planning on it as they will find themselves rooting for potentially one of the greatest sports stories of my life. The clock may strike midnight at any second for the Rockies, but I think many sports fans will tune into to see if the Rockies can add on to an already miraculous past month.
