When this is all over, a lot of the experts are going to describe this particular World Series using words like “boring” and anticlimactic.<\/p>\n
(Actually, some already are<\/a>.)<\/p>\n And maybe they’re right, and perhaps this Rays-Phillies matchup is in fact missing something. But the question is what, exactly, isn’t there – and when was it ever? Are sportswriters pining for the days of the Boston Red Sox putting aside their self-loathing long enough to actually turn an insane payroll into a pair of championships? Luis Gonzalez mysteriously hitting 57 home runs at the height of a highly mysterious era? The fix actually not being in for the 2003 nightmare Cubs-Red Sox series? The decrepit 2003 Yankees daring to not win another one?<\/p>\n Seven of the past 20 World Series have resulted in sweeps. Three were won by margins of 4-1, five went 4-2, and five went the full seven games. Of those seven sweeps, we’ve only really seen a four-game blowout in two, arguably three of those: last year’s Red Sox mauling of the Rockies, 1989 when the A’s crushed the Giants and 1990 when the Reds did the same to those A’s.<\/p>\n So again, why all the disappointment? Is it not enough that. . .<\/p>\n . . . the Phillies weren’t supposed to accomplish much now that the Mets had Johan Santana? But hey, whatever. I guess I’d be upset if I was wrong<\/a> about everything<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The sports media longs for the World Series of yore – but no one’s really sure why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[36,101,133,77,153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n. . . the Rays were supposed to accomplish even less?
\n. . . both teams very quietly assembled the best lineups in their respective leagues?
\n. . . It Never Happened<\/a>, even though It Was Gonna Happen<\/a>?
\n. . . NO ONE ON EARTH predicted this matchup?
\n. . . the angriest sports city on the planet is about to get its due?
\n. . . the Phillies (as of this writing) might win the clincher on a technicality?<\/p>\n