So Late Why Am I Bothering to Write?

When I woke up this morning, I realized two things:

1. This week was finally, finally over.
2. I had yet to post an article on one of the biggest events in Boston sports over the last three years:

A-Rod opted out of his contract with the Yankees!

Oh yea, and the Sox, riding one of the most historic displays of offense in World Series history, brought home their seventh title and second in four years, beating the Colorado Rockies 4 games to none in the Fall Classic.

I know, right? Who'd have thought that we'd be this lucky? Not only did the Red Sox win, but we as fans got to see the classy franchise that is the New York Yankees turn into a bad episode of "Gossip Girl." The weirdest part is that even though I was joking about A-Rod being the bigger story, it was kinda true. Beginning with the revelation on FOX in the middle of Game 4 that A-Rod had copped, I mean opted out, and continuing with the hiring of Joe Girardi to replace Joe Torre who went to the Dodgers to replace Grady Little, the Red Sox World Championship was, well, second string. That's not to say that it's not important, because I know that I'm still riding a "pinch-me" glow after doing the lamest victory dance ever last Sunday night. It's just that the World Series win wasn't all that dramatic.

If you read any of the articles floating out there during the week, you'd realize the sentiment is universal: the Sox won because they were, are, the best team in baseball and had been all season. Their win capped off a postseason where only two series went beyond 4 game sweeps, and one of them was a 5 game series (Cleveland-New York, ALDS). The best, most intense baseball was played during the ALCS between Cleveland and Boston. Colorado didn't even show up for the World Series. This postseason merely demonstrated that baseball still has a long way to go to establish any sort of real parity. Sure, there was a lot more balance in each league this year, with the NL races coming down to the wire, but in the end the American League is still the reigning superpower, with the Senior Circuit turning into a Freshman Team All-Star Show.

If you give it 5 to 10 years, you might see the field start to level off, but until that happens the World Series will continue to be incredibly boring. The only people who love to watch the Sox sweep in 4 are me and the rest of Red Sox Nation. Everybody else wants to see good, competitive, championship-caliber baseball, and they haven't had it in a long time.

So, sure, I'm beyond happy that I have seen the second Boston championship, but there's still a very small part of me who, fully aware of all the voodoo I performed to make the win so easy, is looking for the Staples button so that I may hammer out a satisfying, "That was easy."

Congratulations, everybody.