That is, it all comes down to the deciding game to decide who will lose the 2006 World Series to the Detroit Tigers. At least, that's the common consensus around all of the supposed "experts." I'm sure there are millions of people in St. Louis and New York who are sure that, if their team wins tonight, that they can easily handle the Tigers starting Saturday night.
Which brings me to the Tigers. They've reached the World Series on a run of nothing but momentum, stomping on the Yankees three in a row in the ALDS after losing the first game, then embarrassing the A's in the ALCS and sweeping them in front of the home crowd at the Oakland Mausoleum... err... Colliseum. But momentum is a hard thing to keep, epecially when you have a week-long break waiting for your opponent to be decided.
Arms and bats get cold in a layoff like that, and worse they're all probably reading their own press.
If the momentum stops and we have an actual World Series this year, great! Hell, we haven't had a game 7 in the World Series since the Angels won it in 2002. And while I haven't seen anything near the strength the Tigers have shown in the Cardinals or Mets, but that's absolutely meaningless.
Afterall, as Sun Tzu famously said in "The Art of War:"
"Anything can happen in a short series. Particularly if a team's pitching is hot or not."
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