Maybe the Red Sox will win 120 games and sweep their way to the World Series championship. But, maybe not. I am not convinced, There are so many lousy teams in the AL, posting expansion-season winning percentages that you have to downward curve their W-L. Until the recent massacre at Fenway, what separated Boston and New York was the Sox total domination of the "race-to-the-bottom" types , while the Yankees tended to struggle against the same, Hey the Yanks W-L can also be questioned. But let's see what happens when the Final Four is known.
I think the Indians and Oakland are going to be very tough outs; I haven't even mentioned the Champs & their first three, either.
About 1998, it is easy to forget that Cleveland went home up 2-1 in that series. El Duque and David Wells saved Four Rings` bacon. What is interesting about that is Torre could not stand either. The antipathy was mutual. And that near choke presaged what was to happen in `04 against Boston.
I wouldn't be shocked if they did. I'm not saying that they are a fraud. Far from it. But the upper-tier teams that they will face will prove to be formidable. As for Sales he usually flames out in September, anyway.