The first World Series games to be played in Colorado's Coors Field are coming up (games 3 and 4 of this year's World Series.) What a shame. Coors Field is a pox on major league baseball. It's a far greater threat to the "statistical integrity" of baseball than PEDs. Why? Because everyone can (and it's clear most do) take performance enhancing drugs, only Rockies hitters get to play half of their games at Coors Field!

Anyway, to the Series itself. I can't I'm thrilled about this match up but I am rooting for the Red Sox. I hate these sort of half assed expansion teams like the Rockies. They can go straight to hell along with the Diamondbacks, Marlins, and Devil Rays.

A simple 3 step fix for the MLB playoffs:

1. Go back to two divisions in each league.
2. Get rid of the wild card.
3. Make the division playoffs and the World Series 9 games.

With this set up you are much more likely to have the best team come out on top and you are also much more likely to have a great World Series match up instead of this sort of boring nonsense. The most recent expansion teams should be folded up, especially the Rockies. Coors Field is ridiculous. And I would love to see what kind of numbers Matt Holliday & Todd Helton would put up without having Coors Field to come home to.

Home-Away Splits In 2007:

Matt Holliday: .376 with 25 homers in Colorado, .301 with 11 homers on the road.

Todd Helton: .333 with 9 homers in Colorado, .308 with 8 homers on the road.

Admittedly Helton's numbers weren't that skewed this year but they usually are. From 2004 to 2006 he hit .341 at home and .288 on the road.

Holliday won the NL batting title this year. That's a travesty. Forget the PED BS. Holliday is a .300 hitter getting credit as a .340 hitter because he plays in Coors Field. That's complete crap and unfair to the real 2007 NL batting champ Chipper Jones who hit .337 (.353 AWAY vs. .320 HOME.)

Imagine if a great hitter ever plays in Colorado? (and NO Todd Helton and Matt Holliday are not great hitters, that's my whole point here.) Imagine if Barry Bonds had been in Colorado from 2000 to 2007? He'd have hit .400 at least twice and would probably be well over 800 homers by now.

Labels: Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies