A Cubs-Red Sox World Series?

It’s not too early to beat the drum. Both teams are favorites to win their division and league. This should have happened last season in what could have been a World Series bonanza, but the Red Sox were upset by the Indians, who had no business beating the Sox given the pitching matchups were squarely in Boston’s favor.

So we’ll see 1) how hungry the Red Sox are to get where they should have gone a year ago, and 2) how motivated and hungry the Cubs are to get back to the Series and win two in a row.

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6. I’ve had too good of a time in Fort Myers ribbing great Red Sox fan William B. Gould over his role in Red Sox history. The Boston native and former Stanford law professor headed the National Labor Relations Board for President Clinton in 1994 when he nullified the free agency system major league owners had put into place during the players’ strike. Before Gould’s board struck down the system and required them to go back to the system that required six years of service time before free agency, Dan Duquette had signed John Wetteland, Sammy Sosa, and Kevin Appier. How would Red Sox history have been rewritten?