World Series: You gotta be freakin' kidding me!

Vinny's the baseball expert, but how can you not comment on one of the unlikeliest World Series matchups of all time? I mean c'mon, the Chicago White Sox against the Houston Astros? Seriously?

Tribe fans are the last people in the world who need to be reminded that if ever a team appeared to be limping into the post-season, it was the White Sox. As they entered the last week of the season, the Sox appeared to be on the ropes. But then, once they clinched the Central Division, they became a different team. They swept the Indians on the last weekend of the season, and then went through the Red Sox and the Angels like, as Vinny's hero George Patton would say, "crap through a goose."

The Astros broke more of a sweat. While they only dropped a single game in the Divisional Series to the Braves, they lost two to the Cards, and after Pujols' dinger in the 9th to win Game 5, you could almost feel the collars tightening around the 'Stros necks. But, they went on to bury quite a few ghosts last night as they smacked the Cardinals behind some timely early hitting and a superb pitching performance by Roy Oswalt.

So, now we're faced with a World Series that nobody should win, right? The Astros are making their first appearance in a World Series in their 45 year existence, while the White Sox are showing up for the first time in 46 years. Whoever this year's winner is, it will be only slightly less of a shock to the system than seeing the Red Sox win last year.

Which brings me to my point: I freaking hate this. It's one thing to be America's most tortured sports city, but people, we are rapidly running out of being able to name any franchises that are more pathetic than the ones we've got. In less than two weeks, either the Houston Astros or the Chicago White Sox will be world champions. That pretty much leaves the Cubs and the Tribe as baseball's grand ol' men of futility.

The situation in the NFL gets worse with each passing year. I thought we hit rock bottom 10 years ago when the Chargers got to the Super Bowl, but things continued to go downhill. As miserable as it was -- and it was hell-- to watch first Horseface and then Arthur B. Modell hoist the Lombardi Trophy, in a sense, it was even harder to deal with the realization, just a few years later, that the TAMPA FRIGGIN' BAY FRIGGIN' SUCKANEERS WON A FRIGGIN SUPER BOWL BEFORE THE FRIGGIN BROWNS DID! HOW @#$#ED UP IS THAT??

Ahem. Sorry. Thank God for the LA Clippers.