Well, Baseball fans, if you root for one team, there is a good chance you root for one of the 28 teams whose season has come to an end. Some of you knew your team would not make the postseason, some of you rooted for a team that just missed the postseason, and some fo you (like me) rooted for a team that made the postseason but just didn’t make the world series. Which leads me to this thought and question: Are you going to be watching the World Series, are you going to be rooting for either the Rays or Phillies, and why or why not?

For me, I’ll be watching the World Series, even if it’s not with the same intensity I would have had if the Red Sox were playing in the Fall Classic. It’s baseball, and I love it. While I am a Red Sox fan, I am a baseball fan first. I watched the Phillies-Dodgers, I watched the Phillies-Brewers, the Dodgers-Cubs, and the Rays-White Sox in addition to the Red Sox-Angels series. I didn’t watch, but I listened to the White Sox-Twins play-in and the White Sox Tigers final regular season games on my XM radio. I listened to a number of Padres, Brewers, Angels, Dodgers, A’s, Royals, Pirates, and Cubs games throughout the season. I watched the postseason last year, including all of the Padres-Rockies play in game (which was awesome). Really, the only games I won’t watch/listen to for other teams than the Red Sox are spring training games.

I’ll be rooting for the Rays, sorry Phillies fans. Besides that I think the Rays are the better team (better hitting, better starting pitching overall), I have to root for a team which has never won a Series, never been to the Series, and which has been considered the doormat of the American league, and one of the worst Baseball teams in general, since it’s inception. How many people picked the Rays to be in the mix for the postseason at the start of the year? How many people though the Rays could overcome the Yankees and Red Sox? Not many, and definately fewer than thought the Phillies would be in the postseason, if not the postseason mix. I would gather that fewer baseball fans thought the Phillies would not be a postseason contender than thought that the Rays would be a postseason contender. The Rays are a Cinderella story, and (unlike the Phillies) have never been in the postseason until this year, much less the World Series. Either way, I know this World Series will be great to watch.

 

So I ask you, are you going to watch? Are you rooting for one of the teams? And why or why not?