Well, we in Red Sox Nation had ourselves a spectacle last night at Fenway Park, but not a win. Though I have to admit that the sight of baseball veteran Don Zimmer bull-rushing Pedro Martinez was a definite once-in-a-lifetime experience, disturbing and thrilling at the same time, I wish the Sox could have maintained a little more discipline over their understandably high emotions and focused more on beating the Yankees. Today's game, although technically not a must-win situation, is perhaps the most important of this championship series; for if Boston should lose it, they would have to win three games in a row against New York's best starting pitchers in order to advance to the World Series. Now yes, I know, that's exactly what they did to beat the A's in the Divisional Series, but to hope against hope that they can pull off such a feat two times in a row is simply asking too much. I'm a fan, not a fanatic!

Of course the joke here is that the Cubbies are about to secure their first passage to the World Series since 1945, assuming they can win one of the next three upcoming games against the Florida Marlins. The last time the Sox took it all - in 1918 - they'd faced off against the Chicago Cubs, so not a few people in the world of baseball fandom took it as some sort of sign when both accursed teams made their way up the postseason ladder, that there'd be a kind of exorcism if the two could meet again on the playing field. Well, it looks like the Cubs are going to uphold their part of the bargain, so now the Red Sox need to make sure that they do as well. "Cowboy up!"