Don’t give up hope yet

I know the Red Sox just won 13-1.

The previous time the Colorado Rockies had lost a game, they won their next 10.

Every time a World Series team has won Game 1 by 11 runs or more, they went on to the lose the series.

The last time Josh Beckett won Game 1 of a series, his team lost the next 3.

Today is a new day. What happened in Game 1 doesn’t matter now. This is baseball. Teams lose badly one day and win the next day all the time.

Anything can happen.

Baseball needs the Rockies to win the World Series. A small-market team with a low payroll winning the World Series would continue to give hope to all those teams that haven’t won a World Series in a long time. Eight different World Series winners in eight years would have baseball continue in the parity that helps the sport, giving fans everywhere hope. The Red Sox winning the World Series would kill that hope, as more fans would think you have to have a huge payroll and be in a big market to win it all.

13-1 is a slaughter, but it’s just one game. This series isn’t over yet.

(I got the photo here.)

Why do fans chant “overrated”?

I never understood why fans at sporting events chant “overrated” at the other team.

If anything, this only diminishes what your team just did on the field. If you beat an “overrated” team, it just means your team’s win isn’t really that important.

I noticed this most recently at the UCLA-Cal game, but this happens every time there’s an upset on the road in college sports. The home fans will always start chanting “overrated” when the outcome of the game is decided.

If the team you just beat is overrated, it just takes away from your team did! Think about it — would you rather your team win against a great team, or one that was overrated? I’ll chose the win over the great team every time, because beating a team that was overrated doesn’t really mean anything.

If sports fans were more intelligent, they’d stop chanting “overrated”. That’s probably asking too much though.