MLB: Day Two Hundred and Five
Posted on | October 24, 2007 | No Comments
Here it is Monday, two days before the Colorado Rockies will play the Boston Red Sox in the World Series at Fenway Park in Boston. It should be a great Series considering Boston is pretty much considered the best team in baseball and Colorado is one of the hottest teams in the history of baseball. However, there is something that should concern the Rockies and their fans.
The Colorado Rockies will have eight days off before playing the first game of the World Series. Eight days! Are you kidding me?
Baseball is a game of streaks and zones. It a game of feel and timing. Eight days off can completely destroy anything and everything the Rockies might have had going a few days before.
Want proof?
Let me offer the last year’s Detroit Tigers ball club. The Tigers were probably the best team in baseball last year until stumbling the last month or so of the season. The Tigers still clinched a playoff spot (as the AL Wildcard team) and then they got into the playoffs they suddenly recaptured all their magic. They lost the first game of the playoffs to the Yankees but then they won the next three. Then they moved on to play the Oakland A’s in the ALCS. The swept the A’s. They were on an unbelievable roll. Then they had about a week off.
They waited.
And when they came back for the World Series, all their magic was gone. They lost in five game to the St. Louis Cardinals, probably the easiest team of the three that Detroit faced in the playoffs.
The days off killed the Tigers.
And so the days off may kill the Rockies too.
To some extent it can’t be helped. The Rockies swept the D-Backs and it took the Red Sox seven games to beat the Indians. However, baseball can do away with the two days off before the World Series and cut it down to one day off. MLB should also take out that ridiculous day off between games four and five in the ALCS. Then at least the Rockies would be back on the field two games quicker.
I know, taking a day away after the ALCS wouldn’t be fair to the Red Sox. Well, shouldn’t it be the team that swept their series that gets the benefit of the doubt and not the team that took seven games to advance? Why do the Rockies can punished even more for doing their job as well as it can be done?
Well, I’m sure there won’t be any changes for next year. It’s all about money anyway. Hopefully the Rockies won’t be affected by the long wait and they will give the Red Sox a great Series.
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