Sports: The Unprecedented Red Sox

In the first round of the playoffs (in which you must win three games), the Red Sox swept their first oppenent and won in three games. In the second round (in which you must win four games) against the Yankees, the Red Sox quickly found themselves down 3-0. No team in the history of major league baseball had ever, EVER, come back to win a best-of-seven series after being down 3-0. Not only were they down 3-0, the last two games would be in New York.

And then it began. They won the last two games in Boston, now only down 3-2. They went back to New York. A crucial infraction by A-Rod in the eighth helped the Red Sox win yet again. Now they had tied it. Even that had never happened before---tying it after being down 3-0---much less winning.

In Game 7, they stomped all over the Yankees. 10-3. They didn't even need the grand slam in the second. And they made history. No team in baseball had ever won a series after being down 3-0. No team in basketball has ever done it, either. And it has only been done twice in the NHL (which might not exist anymore, but that's another story).

And the Red Sox are in the World Series. If the Cards win tonight, the Sox will have to face a formidable lineup and not-so-formidable pitching. If Roger Clemens wins tonight, then it will be a Presidential World Series, Texas vs. Massachusetts.

Bring it on.

Edmond the Hun