Given our rich and storied history of choking, there's really no reason to be hopeful.
But what the hell, i'm betting on us anyway. Maybe this year turns out different. Why not.
On a separate topic, i agree with the recent pleas for us to disband the 'fan police.' Some of us have followed the team and attended games since Season One (e.g. yours damn truly), some are more recent arrivals. Who the **** cares. Also, some of us are incurable pessimists (again, me), and some are optimists. Big deal. We all want the team to win. And nothing we write or say here has even the most remote, butterfly's chance in China of affecting the actual outcome. So let's just relax, root for the team, not snipe at each other, not accuse segments of our group of being bad fans or hypocrites or whatever.
Finally, i think we can win tonight even without 19. Boyd will do fine at 3C (or 4C, if Trotz needs to flip him with Beagle as game progresses).
I am surprised at Walker getting a sweater. Maybe Gersich is dinged. Or maybe Barry saw mistakes from 63 in Game 5 which he couldn't live with in Game 6.
Or maybe it's due to PK. Lord knows our PK% was not good in Game 5. That's a continuing area where 43's absence is big-time problematic.
Anyway, that's all. Let's take care of business, do our best, and march the **** on. Operation 9W.