Rootin'

But-good news for Grant-this means the Rockies will lose.  Because I am not allowed to get what I want.

I'm going for the Rockies now. Not just because of my vehement "anyone but Boston" stance, but because I think if the Indians hadn't shat the bed in consecutive nights and made it to the World Series, I wouldn't be completely disappointed at the outcome of the Series either way. Of course I'd root for the Indians and want them to win. I root for the Indians during the regular season too. The Rockies winning the World Series wouldn't make me upset or angry regardless of AL opponent. And at this time in my life, just calming my sports rage is a top priority.

However, it's just so very blah. Rockies? Jesus? Purple uniforms? Moronic dinosaur mascot? Bleck. At least the ballpark is nice and Yorvit Torrealba is there...and I owe some good times in my life to the city of Denver. You won't confuse me with a real Rockies fan. I'll lend my support for a minimum of four games and a maximum of seven. NL has to reprazent too, you see.

I guess the Rockies winning the World Series would be like the feeling I get when I'm on Prozac. I'm not leaping out of my chair to murder anyone, but I'm not really feeling much else.

On the one hand, the guy I know rooting for the Rox is a Yankees fan first, which isn't great.

On the other, stupid ex-g/f lives in Boston and is in love with Pedrioa.

Edge: Rockies.

1993 - 0-13 against the Atlanta Braves.

Giants 103 wins.  Braves 104 wins.

Giants fail to make playoffs with quite possibly their best team ever.

Braves lose to the Phillies.

Giants are 8-4 against the Phillies in regular season... and we outscored them 84-47 in the regular season (ownage!)

Phillies lose to Toronto in WS.

That was ours to win.

FUCK THE ROCKIES!

1.  From my personal background, I have strong affection for the Red Sox. I spent the summer of 1986 in Boston, bartending on the Boston Harbor Cruises (not to be confused with cruising the Boston Harbor bartenders, not that there's anything wrong with that).  A bunch of no-names, led by youngster Roger Clemens, caught fire and became the baseball story of the year, culminating in a great -- though tragically concluded -- WS.
   
2.  Y'all got some short-ass memories OR some short-ass senses of gratitude: it is the Red Sox who have ended the Yankees' domination + entitlement + methodology. Where's the Yankee hate?  Where's the gratitude for knocking the Yankees off the megahistorical pedestal?
   
3. The Rox are a DIVISION RIVAL. As I said above on this thread, we can't wish well for a division rival, period.  Especially punks who haven't been in the league long enough to know what suffering is.

I need to pick a team to root for in order to care.  I agree with all the other reasons people have listed for rooting for the Rocks, but when I think about the family of a minor-leage pitching coach who barely had a cup of coffee in the bigs benefitting from the Rockies winning, that makes it easy for me.  That's real money for a real widow and her kids. I think it's probably safe to assume they could use that more than any player on either roster.

In terms of everything else, I'm already working on selective memory techniques that make this a Giants World Series win in my head.

I hope both teams lose, though.

• I usually root for the NL teams.
• Colorado has ex-Giants Yorvit and Herges and even LaTroy Hawkins.
• Rockies winning a WS is something I've never seen before, whereas I've seen the Red Sox win one.
• I can never ever, ever, ever, never ever cheer for a team that has Eric Gagne on it.
• I hate Curt Schilling, too.
• The Red Sox are now just a less filthy rich man's Yankees and I can't support that.
• Fever Pitch II.
• Red Sox Nation needs to get back to suffering - what it does best. I'm up for another 86 year curse.
• Lastly, and most importantly, a Rockies win would extend my Giants misery just that much more than it currently is, i.e., it would make me feel worse as a Giants fan and I'm really into wallowing in my Giants misery right now.

1. Bill James works for them.  Yeah, they have the second biggest payroll in the game, but they are Moneyball smart about it.
2. George Stienbrenner is the vilest thing in baseball (non-Lasorda division).
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Home field win % / road in % = 137%

Rox home R/g divided by Rox road R/g = 171%
Opp home  R/g divided by Opp road R/g = 144%
Difference - 118.9% advantage, Rox

Post humidor (200-2007)
Rox, Coors - 313-255 (.551), Rox 5.90 r/g, opp 5.53 r/g
Rox, road - 211-356 (.372), Rox 4.12 r/g, opp 4.96 r/g

Home field win % / road in % = 148%

Rox home R/g divided by Rox road R/g = 143%
Opp home  R/g divided by Opp road R/g = 111%
Difference - 128.5% advantage, Rox

In plain English, these numbers (with a massive sample size) demonstrate (conclusively, to me) that the Rox have CHEATED LIKE HELL with how they have deployed the humidored balls.  I am not sure how they have done it, but visors scoring has dropped a whole lot more than their scoring has, post-humidor.

I mean, don't you hate Coors?  Doesn't it feel like we are always getting our asses kicked there - like the Rocks hitters are still teeing off against our guys like it's beer league softball, while our hitters are playing normal MLB baseball, complete with strikeouts and weak grounders?  The Rox had the highest home field advantage in baseball before the humidor, and it's gotten ridiculous since they installed it.

The splits, pre- and post-humidor, are even more extreme and damning if you drop the times that it looks like, post 2001, the Rox have maybe not cheated - the last 12 games of 2006 (when the humidor was broken), 2004 (when my hypothesis is - after two years (02-03) of blatant cheating (unprecidented home field advantage (.593% road, .315% home)) - MLB told the Rox, through back channels, to cool it for a year), and this year (when, to be fair, it doesn't look like much cheating went on - they actually were .481% on the road - they simply, for once, had a good team).

4. It's the f*ckin Rockies.  I mean ... THE F*CKIN ROCKIES.  Blech.  I cannot root for any non-SF NL West team except for the Pads.

In terms of fans: "Red Sox Nation" pisses me off, but the smugness of a bunch of Denver folks who don't bother watching their team could really get to me if I ran into three or four of them.

In terms of the teams as institutions: Overpaying your team versus the most annoying mascot in baseball, if not sports.

In terms of players: I would love to see Troy Tulowitzki hit a hard liner right into Curt Schilling's knee cap...

-Choice made: Go Rox

If the Rockies win I only want it to be a sweep, because, even though the Rox are kind of the embodiment of evil, seeing a team sweep the playoffs would be pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCMPJkOAFy4

I mean, seriously. People think this kid's the 2nd coming of Christ himself. Although I'm admittedly a bit biased, I'm pretty sure Timmy would outduel him any day of the week.

On a semi-related note, did anyone else have ESPN Classic on around 2 PM yesterday? Just curious if I was the only one that was a glutton for punishment.

I don't understand all of the Bo Socks hatred in these parts, nor do I really care.  You can find obnoxious fans of any team, including the Giants, without looking very hard.  When the SF Giants finally get around to winning the WS (hopefully in my lifetime), I'm sure that there will be 1000s of annoying Giants fans (at least to fans of other teams).

It would be very difficult for me to root for the upstart Rockies in the WS, regardless of who they were playing - unless it was the Yankees.  I can't stand the idea of any noob team winning the WS before we do...