The World Series starts tonight and I’m rooting for my team, the Red Sox.
Putting aside as much as possible my built-in biases for them, I still predict they’ll win in six games or fewer. Josh Beckett looks unstoppable lately, and the Sox battled .306 in their league championship while the Rockies batted just .242.

I don’t really dislike the Rox: Just last month, in fact, I caught my first game at Coors Field, a great stadium ideally situated in a fun city that’s capital of a simply gorgeous state. Sure, I have known for some time about the Coors family’s conservative background — and, of course, good old James Dobson is just down the road a stretch. But I didn’t figure that evangelism factored at all in managing the Rockies…

…until I saw this, from Sam Smith of Scholars & Rogues. So now I’m hoping for the Sox to not just win, but sweep.

—Tom Schaller

Phoebe Connelly is a former web editor of the Prospect. Previously, she was managing editor of In These Times. She writes on political culture, human rights, and feminism.