Sox in Six
Originally written on 10/23/04
That's my prediction. Schilling starts the series clincher next Saturday at Fenway.
People around here are comparing this series to the gold medal game against Finland in 1980 from the Sox perspective. The U.S. (Sox) had just taken down the Evil Russian Juggernaut (Yankees) and it didn't really matter what happened against Finland (St Louis) for the Gold (World Series).
As far as I'm concerned that's bullshit. Taking down the Yanks was so far the best moment for me as a Sox fan, but we're not done yet and I'm not gonna be satisfied if we don't finish the deal.
This promises to be a great series. These are 2 of the greatest and most storied franchises in baseball, 2 of the greatest baseball cities in the game, and both teams have fans around the world.
Although the Cards don't have the same tragic history that we do, they've got some demons of their own.
They lost the "85" series to the Royals after being up 3-1. I remember watching that and thinking, how the hell can that happen? These guys were up 3-1 and they couldn't win another game. Of course, it's no longer the biggest choke anymore.
In "87" they were heavily favored and lost to the Twins in 7. One of the things that stands out to me about that series was that the home team won every game. That just happened again with them against Houston. This bodes well for us.
And more recently they've lost the NLCS in "96", "00", and "02".
They've got a great team over there and are perfectly capable of taking it to us. They have solid starting pitching, solid bullpen pitching, great defense, and an offense that can score runs a lot of different ways.
My prediction is that the pitching doesn't come through for them against this Boston offense. Of the 5 starters, the only one with a proven track record of winning is Morris and he's actually having an off year. Woody Williams is having his usual solid year with a 4 ERA but the other guys are all having career years and have never put up numbers like this before. Same situation with the pen. Isringhausen is the only one who's done it in the past.
I think our offense will bust it out against these guys and our pitching will do just enough to keep us ahead of their powerful lineup.
Of course, the only thing I can guarantee is that Tim McCarver will be heavily supporting St Louis as he spent 10 years of his career there and they were also his best years.
GO SOX!
That's my prediction. Schilling starts the series clincher next Saturday at Fenway.
People around here are comparing this series to the gold medal game against Finland in 1980 from the Sox perspective. The U.S. (Sox) had just taken down the Evil Russian Juggernaut (Yankees) and it didn't really matter what happened against Finland (St Louis) for the Gold (World Series).
As far as I'm concerned that's bullshit. Taking down the Yanks was so far the best moment for me as a Sox fan, but we're not done yet and I'm not gonna be satisfied if we don't finish the deal.
This promises to be a great series. These are 2 of the greatest and most storied franchises in baseball, 2 of the greatest baseball cities in the game, and both teams have fans around the world.
Although the Cards don't have the same tragic history that we do, they've got some demons of their own.
They lost the "85" series to the Royals after being up 3-1. I remember watching that and thinking, how the hell can that happen? These guys were up 3-1 and they couldn't win another game. Of course, it's no longer the biggest choke anymore.
In "87" they were heavily favored and lost to the Twins in 7. One of the things that stands out to me about that series was that the home team won every game. That just happened again with them against Houston. This bodes well for us.
And more recently they've lost the NLCS in "96", "00", and "02".
They've got a great team over there and are perfectly capable of taking it to us. They have solid starting pitching, solid bullpen pitching, great defense, and an offense that can score runs a lot of different ways.
My prediction is that the pitching doesn't come through for them against this Boston offense. Of the 5 starters, the only one with a proven track record of winning is Morris and he's actually having an off year. Woody Williams is having his usual solid year with a 4 ERA but the other guys are all having career years and have never put up numbers like this before. Same situation with the pen. Isringhausen is the only one who's done it in the past.
I think our offense will bust it out against these guys and our pitching will do just enough to keep us ahead of their powerful lineup.
Of course, the only thing I can guarantee is that Tim McCarver will be heavily supporting St Louis as he spent 10 years of his career there and they were also his best years.
GO SOX!
posted by Bob at 11/12/2004 08:14:00 AM
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