“Don’t worry Darlin’, now baby don’t you fret. We’re living in the future and none of this has happened yet.” – Bruce Springsteen “Living in the Future”
Before anybody gets too excited, I just want to clarify and say that I am not calling any of you “Darlin’” by any stretch of the imagination. Well, let me be a little more specific. Unless you happen to be offering me Indians playoff tickets then I might call you darlin’…provided you looked like Scarlett Johansson of course.
Anyway, the reason I started this post off with that lyric from The Boss’ latest (and excellent) album titled "Magic" is that it is somewhat relevant to the Tribe’s playoff run to date. In other words sure it sucks being the team who, despite having tied for the MLB’s best record with Boston, still finds itself to be the prohibitive underdog in each series played. Nevertheless, the Tribe played anyway and kicked the crap out of the Yankees. Now, it’s Boston’s turn.
It just seems to be one “evil-empire” after another for the Indians to play during this postseason. You know what? I’m actually fine with the balance of power belonging to the American League. It’s more fun for us fans to watch anyway. Let the two expansion teams duke it out in MLB’s JV league to see who gets to lose the World Series. Pussies.
Naturally, the Indians enter the ALCS as the (again) underdog versus the Boston Red Sox. The first game’s pitching match up will feature two aces: C.C. Sabathia for the Tribe against Josh Beckett for Boston. These two Cy Young front runners are about even, though I think I would settle for the rest of our rotation over their’s at this point.
Rumor has it many native Clevelanders have already taken extreme measures by dumping all their bottles of Sam Adams into the Cuyahoga River while also burning their copies of Cheers episodes by the boxed set. There is also talk of hanging Ben Affleck in effigy at Public Square before Friday night’s game. Clearly, this town is on the verge of mass hysteria and any civilian with a New England accent should be advised and lock their doors and windows for the next two weeks.
War has been declared and Wahoo nation is in this fight for the long haul. Unlike you freaks in Beantown,
we don’t elect geeks to be the grand wizard of our fan base. We prefer unorganized anarchy in our Tee-Pee thank you very much. So look out Red Sox Nation. The Tribe just put Joe Torre’s career into an early grave, now which one of you is next?
Coming Thursday: Series breakdown and predictions!
Read the complete post at http://kidcleveland.blogspot.com/2007/10/allow-me-to-take-first-shot-at-red-sox.html