Rox vs. Sox

We both left work early on Wednesday afternoon to make sure we got good seats at the Blake Street Tavern to watch Game One of the World Series between the Colorado Rockies and the Boston Red Sox. Joining us were more than a dozen other Red Sox fans from either the Go Red Sox Yahoo! Group or the Denver New England Sportsfan Group. Under typical circumstances, the bar would have been dominated by Red Sox fans, but with so many people in Denver jumping on the Rockies bandwagon, we found ourselves surrounded by people dressed in purple and black.

A number of Sox fans we spoke to shared our feelings of split loyalty between the Red Sox and the Rockies. Like we do, many of them go to Rockies games on a regular basis, so they are intimately familiar with the players and they like to see them do well. Now that the Curse of the Bambino is broken, it is no longer a life or death situation to see the Red Sox win a World Series, so we can sincerely say that we will be happy with the outcome regardless of who wins.

However, things did not go well for the Rockies in Game One. Boston pitcher Josh Beckett put on yet another masterful postseason performance, while the Boston bats exploded for seven runs in the sixth inning en route to a 13-1 victory. The game was already three hours long by the time it reached the seventh inning, so with the Red Sox already leading by 12 runs, we decided to leave the bar early and come home. We plan on being there again tomorrow for Game Two.