Let Me Explain...

So with the Rockies making it to the World Series, and everyone in Colorado talking about how the Rox are going to destroy the Red Sox, let me explain something to you.

First, i'm totally a Rockies fan, i think i'm proved that, and i'm rooting for them. But that doesn't mean i'm naive to the facts.

The American League is vastly better than the National League.

"oh but its just a game, it's just baseball, anyone can win"

Not really, here's why;

In the major sports leagues today, there is a dominate conference, and a weaker conference. Its the same in baseball. The American League is much better. How do i know? well i've come up with a simple way to tell.

Take the top 3-5 teams in each conference, then compare them to see who you'd rather take with the game on the line. Lets start with NBA of this year.

Western Conference Team:
Phoenix
San Antonio
Dallas
Denver
Utah

Eastern Conference Teams:
Boston
Miami
Detroit
New Jersey
Washington

I'd take Phoenix, San Antonio and even Dallas before i took any Eastern teams, and even then it'd be a wash. The Eastern Conference is catching up after years of being terrible, but they haven't caught up all the way, and don't give me the Pistons crap, i've got reasons why they were able to win but thats a whole other theory.

NFL. This one is even easier than the NBA.

AFC:
New England
Indy
Pittsburgh
San Diego?

NFC:
Dallas
Philly
Green Bay
Seattle?

NE and Indy are tops in the league, maybe Pittsburgh and Dallas are a wash but all of the teams in the AFC group are better than 3/4 of the NFC group.

So back to MLB. I would have taken any of the American League playoff teams to win the World Series before i backed the National League

American:
Boston
Cleveland
New York

National:
Colorado
Arizona
Philly

No competition. Now consider these points:

-Both the NBA and MLB have seven game series, therefore, the better team is afforded a chance to make a mistake, and still win the series. Only the Superbowl really evens the playing field, no home-field, and its a do or die game, no mistakes are allowed.

-The reason teams like the Pistons or Heat, or weaker NFC teams or whatever win every once in awhile is the playoffs. think about it, the years that the Seahawks or Philly got to the superbowl, the path was somewhat easy, but in the AFC the Colts had to go through New England along with someone else like Pittsburgh or San Diego or Denver. Same in the NBA, if you win the western conference, you've gone through San Antonio, Phoenix, Dallas, Denver versus Orlando, New Jersey, Washington, Boston.

-When a conference has a dominate team, like the Spurs, the other teams will do everything to bring superstars to their teams to compete. This is why the dominate conference stays dominate. The Nuggets, Suns, Mavs, Jazz, Lakers and everyone else is doing everything they can do to be competitive. it shifts because the weaker conference gets the top draft choices, so after a few years, those picks become all-stars and slowly shifts the power, like Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Dwight Howard.

So hopefully this helps explain why the Rockies might be in trouble. sure they're good, but can they really compete against the Red Sox? they might win a game or two, but a 7 game series will allow the best team to win, and i think think the Red Sox are the better team. Go Rox!