I can’t stand this:

Everybody thinks Detroit, a team few thought had a chance just three weeks ago when it blew the American League Central Division on the last day of the season, not only will win the World Series that starts today, but quickly sweep away the St. Louis Cardinals.

It was only three weeks ago when everybody was writing off the Tigers as fast as they could. They were writing off the Cards, too. It’s true that the Tigers have had more of a storybook season, but this is the all-underdog World Series. (If you said at the start of the season that the Cards would be in the Series, people would have yawned; if you told them that a month ago, many of them would have raised their eyebrows.) I’m not going to make any predictions, except to say that I really do feel like anything can happen. (And I should add the Tom Boswell’s column is quite good–that opening graf may be an accurate reflection of what a lot of folks are thinking.)

Okay, off to my son’s hockey practice. Ice time looms.