World Series

The World Series is set and it will be the Colorado Rockies making their first ever trip to title series vs the Boston Red Sox who came back from trailing the series with the Cleveland Indians 3 games to one by winning three straight to send Cleveland home for the season wondering what could have been.

So, let the trash talking start! Already this morning I have heard from the Red Sox fans who once again are in the World Series after winning it in 2004. Where do all these Red Sox fans come from any way? They're on my daughters softball team, they go to our church. I see them all over the place. I never knew we had so many people living in Oregon that once lived in Boston.

Red Sox fan has become the stylish thing to be. People once latched onto them because they felt sorry for the woeful Sox because it had been 80+ years since they won a Title. Now since they won and ended that streak it seems that everyone has taken claim to the title of "the fan who broke the curse".

Red Sox fans, Cowboys fans, Notre Dame fans and (sorry Red Sox fan) Yankee fans have become the bain of my existense. Who are these people and why do they cheer for a team 2 or 3 thousand miles away from where they live? I can see it if they once lived in the area but I have never understood the ones who did not.

I have always been the type of fan who cheers for the local team. I grew up in California so I was a Giants and 49er fan. When we moved to Oregon I still cheered for the Giants (still do) and 49ers (still do) but I have adopted the Seahawks and Mariners as my primary teams in pro sports. But down deep I am a college sports fan. I find the games more enjoyable, you cheer for the team and not the player as much. Names of players change every year with graduation so each season is new and fresh with speculation about who will take whos place. The games for the most part are more enjoyable to watch as the passion of the young player comes through where the professional athlete views it more as a job.

That brings me back to the World Series. My regional affiliation will make me cheer for the Rockies in the series being as they are the closest team to where I live. But a signigicant part of me will be cheering, not for the Red Sox, but for Jacoby Ellsbury. Ellsbury is a former Oregon State player and since I am an Oregon State alum I must support my fellow Beavers.

So let the series begin. Lets hope we can get it done before the winter snows come to Denver or it could be the longest World Series in history.

Rockies in 5 games.