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While everyone outside of New York and Philadelphia is complaining about having to choose between the Yankees and Phillies to win a World Series is like choosing between breaking your big toe with a sleghammer or having it chopped off by a bandsaw, I have a small confession to make. I'm pumped about this series.
In most World Series, I can generally find a rooting interest in one team or the other either because of players I like, ex-Pirates, or general existing biases against franchises or fan bases. The problem is, this rarely works out well. Take, for example, the 2004 World Series. Typical small-market logic dictats that I am supposed to despite the Red Sox and root for the NL team. Except the NL team the Cardinals, whom I loathe, and the Red Sox had Manny Ramirez and Pedro Martinez, two of my favorite non-Pirates to watch play at the time. So I said I was rooting for the Cardinals, secretly was rooting for the Red Sox, and felt kind of dirty about the whole thing.
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