The other Sox

Edit: Well, apparently, the Red Sox won. How about that? Turns out I went to bed too early.

I'm writing this during the sixth inning of game four of the ALCS, so, I have no idea as to how this game ends. But... the game I am watching has the Yankees winning by a run and up in the series, 3-0. I was among the many who wanted the Red Sox to win. And, while I'm not in the business of predictions, I've told many people that I thought the Red Sox were the best team in the league, so I fully expected the team to dispatch the Yankees in this series.

So... What happened?

Well, let me reiterate something I wrote last week, before the series:
We all expect this to be an amazing battle going seven games with some crazy extra-inning debacle/heroics. Some people think this series is going to be better than last year. There is absolutely no way this series is going to come close, excitement-wise, to last year's ALCS. Last year, we had

A) Zimmer v. Pedro
B) Garcia/Nelson v. groundskeeper guy
C) Pedro being left in too long, which led to...
D) Aaron Boone's homer off Wakefield

That series was epic. There is no way this series can top that. I think this year, we'll see some evenly matched teams battling it out like last night. But, there's no way it'll top last year.

Well, I was right about that. This series stinks. There is no suspense, just butt-whuppings. Considering the Yankees and Red Sox are so evenly matched, what happened?

Well, I guess the Red Sox just stunk it up. I'm of the belief that momentum doesn't really exist (in Rob Neyer says, "You're only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher."), nor does "clutch."

But, all of us Boston lovers forgot one thing with the Yankees: The Yankees came in first. As well, the Yankees have some excellent pitchers, because of injury, that were rested for this series.

The Yankees are the better team; I'm just suprised we didn't realize it before.