The Boston Red Sox have just won their second World Series in four ninety years. They have won eight straight World Series games and swept both the Cardinals and Rockies.
Let's look back at the teams they've beaten.
To start, the 2004 Cardinals, who after an intense roller coaster ride in the NLCS headed to Boston to face the (un)cursed Red Sox, who pulled off the greatest comeback in sports history. In four games, the Red Sox continued their winning streak and won the World Series for the first time in 86 years.
More recently, the 2007 Rockies. Winning 21 of their final 22 games, the Rockies entered the World Series being the only team to sweep their competition in the playoffs. However the Red Sox pulled off another improbable comeback and took that momentum straight into the World Series and the streaking Rockies never won another game.
What connects the two series? It could be as simple as where they were played. For both series', the Red Sox had home field advantage, meaning when they won it all, they were on the road. Looking at those two stadiums, we have Busch Stadium and Coors Field.
Ladies and Gentleman, the truth is evident. The Red Sox hate beer. If you name your team's stadium after your local brewery, the Red Sox will make sure they meet you in the World Series, with home field advantage, and they will sweep you to the floor in front of your drunken home town fans. Try and stop them, you can't.
Just one team remains for the Red Sox to sweep away on their anti-beer World Series campaign - the Milwaukee Brewers. That's right. The next time the Red Sox make the World Series, they will be faced up with the Brewers. And game 4 will be in Miller Park. And the Red Sox will sweep their hopes and dreams away.
After that, who knows. Maybe we will have to wait 86 more years for the Red Sox to find another set of opponents to target. Until then, anyone who ventures within 50 miles of Boston with a beer in their hands not labeled "Sam Adams" shall be swept away to their home city and beaten with the bats of David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez...
You have been warned.
***On a side note, thank you to Jacoby Ellsbury for stealing second base in Game 2 of the World Series, my free taco from Taco Bell was very delicious!!
Let's look back at the teams they've beaten.
To start, the 2004 Cardinals, who after an intense roller coaster ride in the NLCS headed to Boston to face the (un)cursed Red Sox, who pulled off the greatest comeback in sports history. In four games, the Red Sox continued their winning streak and won the World Series for the first time in 86 years.
More recently, the 2007 Rockies. Winning 21 of their final 22 games, the Rockies entered the World Series being the only team to sweep their competition in the playoffs. However the Red Sox pulled off another improbable comeback and took that momentum straight into the World Series and the streaking Rockies never won another game.
What connects the two series? It could be as simple as where they were played. For both series', the Red Sox had home field advantage, meaning when they won it all, they were on the road. Looking at those two stadiums, we have Busch Stadium and Coors Field.
Ladies and Gentleman, the truth is evident. The Red Sox hate beer. If you name your team's stadium after your local brewery, the Red Sox will make sure they meet you in the World Series, with home field advantage, and they will sweep you to the floor in front of your drunken home town fans. Try and stop them, you can't.
Just one team remains for the Red Sox to sweep away on their anti-beer World Series campaign - the Milwaukee Brewers. That's right. The next time the Red Sox make the World Series, they will be faced up with the Brewers. And game 4 will be in Miller Park. And the Red Sox will sweep their hopes and dreams away.
After that, who knows. Maybe we will have to wait 86 more years for the Red Sox to find another set of opponents to target. Until then, anyone who ventures within 50 miles of Boston with a beer in their hands not labeled "Sam Adams" shall be swept away to their home city and beaten with the bats of David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez...
You have been warned.
***On a side note, thank you to Jacoby Ellsbury for stealing second base in Game 2 of the World Series, my free taco from Taco Bell was very delicious!!
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