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Sports The Boston Red Sox defeated the Colorado Rockies in four games this week to win… Sports The Boston Red Sox defeated the Colorado Rockies in four games this week to win their second World Series in three years. The Red Sox brought home the World Series trophy in 2004 for the first time since 1918, according to the Associated Press.

peter: Let’s put it this way. I like the Colorado Rockies. I like the fact that the scrappy club won 21 of 22 games on their way to the World Series. I like the fact that they were playing in the first World Series in their club’s history, and that they deserved to be there more than anyone else. The only thing that matters more is how much I love the Sox.

The Red Sox are probably the purest team in baseball. A Sox game is played the way a baseball game was meant to be played – from their legendary teamwork to the insanely devoted fans, to the hand-powered scoreboard sitting below the “Green Monster” at the oldest ballpark in the game.

After the Beantown Bombers sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in late 1919, the Sox struggled through some of the hardest losses in sports history and didn’t claim another World Series title until 2004. This latest victory means only the second golden trophy for the Sox in 89 years. One of the United States’ most storied franchises surely deserves more than that. Seeing as how the Rockies have only been in existence for 15 seasons, I figure they can wait a little longer to bring one home to Colorado.

richard: Oh, there was a baseball game going on? I’m not the most sports-attuned person in the world, so the Red Sox winning the World Series to me is kind of like the fact that the original “Monopoly” board was circular and not a rectangle. Who cares?

I’ve always liked the fact that we call it the “World Series” of baseball, even though I don’t see any teams from