No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

It's statistically impossible to have the Red Sox and Yankees in the Series every year.

We'll have to compare the numbers from this year to ratings for the years prior to the Red Sox and Cardinals. I think this will be a memorable World Series with incredible ratings. I think the numbers will hold up extremely well and will be in the ballpark with last year.

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.