Can you tell me how to get ...

... to a World Series by winning 21 of 22 games (albeit against NL competition), and then lose three straight to open the Fall Classic?

That's what the Colorado Rockies have done. Their overpowering opponents the Boston Red Sox, of course, pulled a 4-3 ALCS victory out of somewhere themselves after being down 3 games to zero to the Yankees not that many years ago. But as incredible as that seemed, I think I'd be even more stunned for the Rockies to do that to the BoSox this time around.

Oh, well, if nothing else, during game one of this World Series after the Sox had already scored 12 runs en route to a 13-1 win, FOX used a very familiar ditty to accompany a graphic detailing the Red Sox's offensive success. Anybody else catch that?

"One two three FOUR five (brief pause) six seven eight NINE ten, eleven twelve*.
Repeated, in a slightly higher key:
"One two three FOUR five (brief pause) six seven eight NINE ten, eleven twelve*."

* Always in kind of an off-puttingly seductive tone, didn't you think?

If Boston did find a way to collapse through the rest of this series, maybe late in Game 7, FOX could arm a clumsy chef with two stacks of Boston cream pies at the top of a flight of stairs.

Or (and it's a big stretch that this Series could even get back to Fenway Park), maybe a certain trash-can resident (oh no, a cheap and obvious joke) could go to Fenway to see another Green Monster.