For me, ANY games beyond 162 after that tire fire of a Red Sox season last year is a gift.
Growing up as a Red Sox fan and dealing with one nut punch playoff/WS loss after another, all I hoped for was ONE WS title.
So far, this team/organization has given me four, it's surreal and incredible for me to be honest.
I'm looking forward to the game tomorrow with the gashouse gorillas, going into it with zero expectations, whatever happens, let the chips fall where they may.
Someone compared it to the 1978 playoff game; nope, not even close, that was a battle between two heavyweights who won 99 games each that year, they were the two best teams in baseball meeting for the right to demolish the hapless Royals (they won the West numerous times only to get rolled by the winner from the East, sort of like back in the late 1960's when hockey expanded they came up with the moronic idea to put all 6 expansion teams into the Western division, which the Blues won several years in a row only to get demolished in the finals, they changed that in 1971) and they go on to roll the NL winner, who happened to be the Dodgers.
Quite a few pundits say the Rays are a lead pipe lock to get to the World Series and the winner of this game is going to get steamrolled.
Survive tomorrow and advance and we'll just see what happens.