This World Series was supposed to have it all, but baseball is going to have to wait another year for that dramatic game seven.
It had the names: Rodriguez, Rollins, Jeter, Howard, Utley, Teixeira – oh, it certainly had the stars. It had the storylines: Cliff Lee vs. the Bombers, A-Rod vs. The Playoffs, Pedro vs. the Yankees, a potential dynasty vs. the definition of the word. Believe me, it was nothing short of Shakespearian.
But in the end, the Yankees were just too good, and the Phillies were just too Chase Utley, and not much else. And even then, if you take away the two games Cliff Lee won for the Phillies, you have a 4-0 sweep and yet another throw away ‘World Series,’ if you can even call it that.
The problem was, for all the big named stars that were hyped, only the ones on the Yankee side actually showed up for the World Series. Aside from Chase Utley and Cliff Lee for one of his two starts, the Phillies were completely strapped of their firepower.
Jimmy Rollins, the Phillies’ vaunted leadoff man and 2007 MVP, posted a meager .217 average through the six game series, with only three stolen bases [...]

By: Dan Massar, YawkeyTalkies Correspondent
To slump or not to slump? That is the question.
Is it better to go into the postseason on a roll? Or is it better to limp in racking up the losses?
The Red Sox are certainly limping into the playoffs.  Their win last night came after losing  six straight games. They’ve lost eight of the last eleven. Ouch.
But some recent history shows going into the playoffs on a sour note is not necessarily a bad thing.  The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals a prime example of a slump gone right.  The Cardinals nearly blew a 7 game division lead in September.  They won the NL Central with only 83 wins after a horrible September in which they lost seven straight games at one point.  But then with no expectations that went into the playoffs and won the World Series.
The 2006 Detroit Tigers who had been leading the AL Central for most of the season before late season struggles coughed the division up to the Twins, after losing their last five games all at home. With the Wildcard, the Tigers put the late season collapse behind them and beat the Yankees in the ALDS.  They then swept the A’s [...]