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Enjoy Your Luck, Rockies Fans

Oct 23, 2007 – 9:43 PM
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Eamonn Brennan

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Everyone is still trying to make sense of the Rockies' incredible stretch run this season. Rob Neyer placed it as the No. 3 baseball miracle of all time. The Rockies, in their post-game interviews after their NLCS win, seemed to be struggling to comprehend it. Others are turning to the special sauce that nearly every team needs to win in baseball's postseason, and surely any team needs to win 21 of 22 games: luck.

And already I can hear Rockies fans readying in their throats a choral scream: "Luck! We don't need no luck! They don't respect us!"

So I'm here to tell you, Rox backers: Relish it. Relish the luck.

Seriously. Go on. It's OK to admit you're a lucky team. Every team needs a little luck here and there, especially in baseball. If luck, in tandem with skill and consistency and talent, has taken your team to the precipice of a championship, don't get angry about it. Don't act like a goofball pickup basketball player who just hit a lucky three-pointer, the guy who wants to act like he was just that good all along. Don't be the New England Patriots, feeling slighted in respect even though everyone already lavishes it on them. Just enjoy it, call yourselves incredibly lucky, light a victory cigar and bask in the rewards that luck has reaped you.

There are 29 other teams, and 29 other fanbases, that wished they were as lucky as you.
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