That's It for the Rocks

Rosie O, start tuning your vocal cords. The Colorado Rockies are about finished.

Who saw this one coming? (C'mon, the Rockies are a very good baseball team.)

I didn't. I thought Boston would win the first game of the Series and then Colorado would take the second. But, as we've seen in Kansas City so often in recent years, a relatively young team with relatively young arms usually struggles in a longer series against a veteran team that knows how to win.

It didn't help that the Rockies had eight days off. For a recent article on Metro Sports' Web site, Royals Hall of Famer Willie Wilson told me that when the Royals had three days between the ALCS and the World Series against the Phillies in 1980, it pretty much killed them. He said at this point of the season, if you take more than two days off your timing is shot. It's been obvious with the Rockies.

That's too bad. I predicted a six-game series. Oh well. A great season for ex-Royals Clint Hurdle and Jamie Quirk.

Matt