Yesterday, I argued that everyone needed to relax. After last night’s bludgeoning by the Rays, I still think everyone should chill out. Because it’s just about over.

We’ve been down this road too many times to concede anything, but let’s be honest: Last year’s Red Sox team was the best in baseball, but had the unfortunate timing to have a three-game slump in October, which they subsequentially turned around and became the best team in baseball again.

This year’s team is beat up and on fumes, which means a new world order is about to be thrust upon us. It will be led by Joe Maddon and his hipster glasses and it will include mohawks and more cowbell.
After the jump, what a Tampa Bay triumph means.

1. Maddon will become the new face of baseball managers. It’s already happening because A) He’s new and B) He’s a great quote. The auto-biography is coming.

2. Prepare thyself for a bazillion baseball columnists to write how old-school baseball values trumped the stat nerds. It will be ugly.

3. Every new stadium will have an obstruction in the field of play to replicate that “Tropicana Feel.”

4. Carl Crawford will be proclaimed “the best left fielder in baseball,” by Chip Caray while Manny Ramirez asks Scott Boras to count his millions.

5. Championship parade at Hooters!

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Posted by Paul Flannery on 10/15/08 in Red Sox