No longer are the Red Sox the team overcoming decades of futility to emerge victorious. Instead, they are a increasingly dominant franchise going to the World Series for the second time in four years. It might not be the rapturous breakthough of 2004 ... and, of course, we're sure Red Sox fans would have it no other way. Now they can just be ordinary, happy fans. We congratulate the Red Sox on their American League Championship. Seeing that lineup in Coors Field is going to be a treat.

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