"After Series of Duds, This One Could be Classic" - Ken Davidoff, Newsday

"But the hunch here is that we'll find what we're looking for in Phillies-Rays, which indeed kicks off tonight at Tropicana Field. That, while the Fox folks, Red Sox Nation, Hollywood and Scott Boras are disappointed we're not watching Red Sox-Dodgers, we're going to wind up with a better series...The components are all here for a great Fall Classic. We've got one coming to us."

What did we end up with instead?  A five-game Phillies victory (in which they never trailed in any of their wins) and a horrible disaster for MLB with the Game 5 rain fiasco: a 3-day event partly played in a rain storm, and of course, the appearance of pure incompetence from Bud Selig yet again.