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Do you C.C. Sox winning tonight?

Oct 18th, 2007 by Bill Burt

Before I get into some of the scenery a little more than eight hours before tonight’s first pitch, I’ll give you my thoughts on what will happen in Game 5:
I believe the Indians will win. I believe it will be a very close game tonight. I believe the Sox will play better than they did the first two games. But this is a big home field advantage playing this game in Cleveland.
I didn’t realize how starved the people of Cleveland are for a champion. The lead story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a very good newspaper I might add, is a column by Terry Pluto. He pulls no punches in his first paragraph:
Don’t let the series go back to Boston. Don’t think about doing later what you can do right here, right now.
Win the American League pennant, tonight, at Jacobs Field.
That didn’t seem like a suggestion. It was an order.
Apparently, Red Sox fans weren’t the only cursed group. Considering the The Fumble (Earnest Byner), The Drive (John Elway) and The Shot (Michael Jordan), all failures, are among their most recent, memorable playoff experiences, all ending misery.
Pluto went on:
Let’s watch this Tribe create its own legacy, on that we’d love to tell our kids and grandchildren about — without weeping!
You get the point. There are two ways of looking at that. That’s too much pressure or it will be empowering.
If the Red Sox didn’t have the holes they have in their lineup, I would probably give them edge. But this appears to be the Indians time. They are the team making the big plays while the Sox have, for some reason, gone quiet.
What do you think?
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I’ll be available to answer any questions or comments.

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  • GaryFromChapelHill
    When you grow up in North Carolina, you end up "picking and choosing" which teams you will root for for the rest of your life. Back in 1970, I began following the Red Sox. In the early 70's, I became a Cleveland Browns fan. Some could say that I had a miserable childhood as the Sox and Browns continually found newer and more painful ways to lose, year after year.

    Until 2004.

    So I do have somewhat of a soft spot for Clevelanders that have suffered through a lifetime of sports fandom without a championship.

    But I want the Red Sox to send this thing back to Boston and win games 6 and 7, then win me another World Championship. I'm selfish that way.

    I'll toast those Clevelanders when my Browns win the whole thing. That'll be sweet.
  • pasta diving lugo
    Gary, we "hang" on your every word. Great memories for for.

    Thanks, big guy.
  • pasta diving lugo
    I think you're right, Burt. A lot for the sawks to overcome here and a lot of our guys not contributing, pressing too much. A chance for CC to redeem himself and I can't believe he will throw three post season stinkers in a row.

    And Cleveland deserves it. Great management, good team for half the money. You can't say that about our sawks this year. It's almost like we've become the old pre-Torre Yankees.
  • pasta diving lugo
    well so much for our powers of prediction, burt.

    i think curt will give us some magic now.

    but game 7 should have been bucholtz. I'd give the ball to lester before dice-k, but I think management has primed him to be the fall guy in this drama.

    we shall see.

    so good to see lofton being such an a-hole. let's make it personal. watch curt dust him. watch carmona send manny to mass general where xrays will reveal "nothing" a la Yogi Berra.
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