Colorado Rockies fans get the World Series they never wanted

Well, Colorado Rockies fans, it looks like the worst-case scenario for the World Series has happened. While baseball season ended for the Rockies earlier this month when the Milwaukee Brewers eliminated them in the National League Division Series, baseball season has officially ended in terms of interest for many in the Mountain time zone.

When the Los Angeles Dodgers knocked the Brewers out of the National League Championship Series this weekend, they also eliminated the last hope that Colorado Rockies fans had for having a team they could root for in the Fall Classic.

Let’s be honest … Rockies fans are still not big fans of the Boston Red Sox after what happened in the 2007 World Series. And certainly Colorado fans aren’t going to be cheering for their National League West rivals (and the team that beat them in Game 163 this season for the division crown). So a Dodgers-Red Sox World Series is absolutely the worst of the worst … and it didn’t take long for the comments about it to start on Rockies Twitter. You can count on interest in the Nuggets and Avalanche spiking quickly.

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Some will read this editorial and consider it sour grapes. Get over it, some will say. Well, that’s the beauty of sports. We don’t have to get over anything. In fact, we can hold grudges against certain teams and players for quite some time. Some people will always hate when their team plays at Coors Field. We can always hate when their team is playing longer than ours.

I considered running a poll to ask which team was the lesser of two evils here, but I think the choice of “none of the above” would have won in a landslide.

Milwaukee, we were counting on you. If you knocked out the Rockies in the postseason, the least you could have done is won the whole thing. We were not only counting on you, but rooting for you as well. Now, we get two of the three teams with the highest payroll battle it out for the title. Awesome. Just awesome.

The 2018 World Series will happen and fans from the Northeast and West Coast will revel in it. The rest of us around the country … well … we will just keep counting down until pitchers and catchers report and we can focus on the 2019 campaign.