BOSTON WINS, WHO CARES?

by DCScrap, Our Book of Scrap

So Boston came back from a 3-1 deficit to move on to play the Colorado Rockies in the World Series, huh? Apparently this has had a profound effect on many in the blogosphere.

Red Sox Monster: Shame on us for doubting - even for a minute - that the Red Sox could come back from a 3-1 deficit against a phenomenal Cleveland Indians team that the world will no doubt be hearing again from in 2008.

Sawx Blog: The story of this ALCS was that the Red Sox actually had the opportunity to manufacture a heck of a lot more runs then they did (the record number of double plays attests to that), and game 7 was a great example of this early on.

Surviving Grady: There's something very beautiful in the fact that Jacoby Ellsbury stepped in for Coco and made some magical sh*t transpire, but Coco still got to come in and say f@#k all to his knees and ankles, catapulting himself into the centerfield corner wall to snare the final out.

SoxNest: Now, as Sox players prepare to recover from a night when they all deserved their own Rachel Boston, they have a moment to breathe before what is almost sure to be a very chilly World Series. And guess who’s starting Game 1 Wednesday?

Six Pack Sports Report: There are a lot of people who hate the Red Sox because of what happened after 2004; the pink hats, the ridiculous crowds in visiting teams ballparks, people who really thought Manny Ortiz was someone on the team, and Fever Pitch. But the only group of people who hates that breed of fan more then outsiders who see them as the epitome of Red Sox fandom is people like me - people who love this team and have loved this team our whole lives.

Not everyone is having a Happy Monday though...

Simon on Sports: Pack up your belongings, Joel. Just in case you were unaware Kenny Lofton is fast. We expect you to be packed up and gone by the morning. Thank you.

The Ship of Fools: Don't be fooled into thinking that Kenny Lofton being held up at third was an important play. It wasn't. A) The Red Sox scored seven more runs after that play happened, and B) if Casey Blake doesn't bounce into an easy double play, then it wouldn't have mattered.

The Big Picture: F**k the Red Sox. Enough of their sh*t. Really. At this point, the Sox are just as bad as the Yankees. Their payroll is second in the Majors and is nearly $100 mil more than that of the Rockies. So -- and stick with us here -- wouldn't a Colorado victory in the World Series be 100 million times more valuable than a Sox win?

The only question left to ask is ... Are you ready for ROCKTOBER®?!