I was happier this time last year. Oh well, after 86 years in the desert you can't expect every year to be an oasis. It's someone else's turn. And how appropriate that of the eight playoff teams, the six that have played for a title in the last decade didn't make it. Chicago and Houston did. The White Sox haven't won a World Series since 1917; the Astros, never. One team's drought begins to end tonight. Who wins? I predict Houston in seven games. Step up to the plate with your World Series prediction in the comments section below.

As long as the Yankees aren't in the World Series, I'm a happy camper.

Houston in 5: good pitching beats good hitting, but great pitching beats everything.

I predict CHI-TOWN in six. The 4 horsemen will be to much. Ditka will get the series MVP.

Can we be sure the WS don't throw this one? - Just a Joke.
Sox in 5 or 6

Sox in 7 - God would not let this one go any less than 7 games.

Houston in 6.

-Finbar

Sox in 6. They won't screw this one up.

Houston in 5; the White Sox pitchers are very good, but none of them is better than any of Houston's Big Three. Facing Clemens, Pettitte and Oswalt six out of seven games and beating them four times is a very tall task; I see a split in Chicago and then a sweep in Houston, with Roger Clemens starting and winning the decisive game 5 in storybook fashion.

Clemens + Pettite + Oswalt = 596 regular season wins. I wonder if a team has ever strutted into WS play with more mound mastery.

my guess, A.J. Pierzinski is the new Shoeless Joe Jackson and throws this series by letting a passball win the series. I hate that guy!! Houston in 6!

More mound mastery? Have you ever heard of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz? I also remember a younger Roger Clemens and a better Andy Pettite playing in the World Series with a a more impressive supporting cast of pitchers. Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling? Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling? This is just recent history. Perhaps someone will remember the 1969 Mets with Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, and Jerry Koosman, the 1967 Cardinals with Bob Gibson and Steve Carlton, or the 1963 Dodgers with Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. Andy Pettite and Roy Oswalt are good pitchers, not Hall of Famers.

I'm with you Dan.

Little late with the comments, but thanks for the World Series post. White Sox fans are used to getting overlooked.

Tough to overlook them tonight, with the win and the fireworks.

Q: Did everyone catch Joe Buck and Tim McCarver ratting out Jose Contreras's brother for listening to the game tonight in a Cuban shack? Did Castro catch it?

There was a time when baseball was "America's Pastime" and who did or did not play in the World Series was important stuff. Not anymore. The game has outlived its usefulness and will continue to slide into historical irrelevance.

It does not matter who is playing nor who will win except maybe in Las Vegas. There are no more Mickey Mantels, Yogi Berras, Al Kalines, or Pee Wee Reeses. RIP, pro baseball.

Hey Bobby Cox,

You more than anyone should know that Smoltz/Glavine/Maddux at the time you won the 1995 WS had a combined 354 career wins more than 200 less than Clemens/Oswalt/Pettite. So Jeremiah still has a point. The larger question of the best 3-man starting rotation to enter into a series is still debatable though despite the gaudy career win totals for the Astros starters. As they are proving, for example, in order to have a huge number of career wins you have to have played a very long time, and Clemens proved that age does break a body down in game 1. The 300+ wins don't mean a thing if he can't pitch game five or pitch effectively in game one.

As a Braves I would go w/ their WS teams of the mid-90's.