So the Red Sox are up 3-0. This can end one of several ways:

- The Sox win tomorrow and pulverize any talk of the curse forevermore. They’ve won 7 straight since being down 4-3 in the 9th inning of ALCS Game 4, and completing the sweep tomorrow will end the curse with an exclamation point bigger than the Green Monstah.

- The Sox lose tomorrow, causing a tiny swell of panic in The Nation, but come back to win game 5. The curse is dead.

- The Sox lose games 4 and 5 and head back to Boston trusting a gimpy (if gutsy) Curt Schilling and an unpredictable Pedro to close it out. If they win game 6 with Schilling giving a strong performance then Schilling confirms his standing as one of the best big game pitchers in history and cements his status in Boston lore.

- The Sox lose games 4, 5, and 6 and Pedro has the weight of the Nation on his back for Game 7. If the Sox win in 7 then the curse is lifted, if shakily. If the Sox lose in 7 then the curse reaches unprecedented levels of strength and fury. To come back from 3-0 against the Yankees (a feat never before accomplished in baseball, let alone Sox vs. Yanks) and then lose in the same fashion in the World Series would be Shakespearean in scope. A true tragedy indeed.

I’m rooting for a Sox sweep. Win or lose when the Sox clinch or choke Boston is going to look like Fallujah, which makes me appreciate Cardinals fans more than ever.