The Red Sox Have to Win the World Series Because I Want My Couch for Free

Back around spring training time a local furniture company, Jordan’s Furniture, ran a promotion that if the Boston Red Sox won the 2007 World Series certain items of furniture purchased during a period in the spring would be free (see: Free furniture if the Red Sox win it all again).

About that same time my wife and I went into said furniture store to purchase furniture. Not because of the promotion, because I’m pretty sure most people do not run out to purchase extra furniture because of a promotion. We actually needed furniture for a new sun room that we had added to the house. At least one of the items, the couch, is covered under Jordan’s promotion.

How could Jordan’s do this. In a word, “insurance” (and maybe some faith that it would take the Red Sox another 86 years to win another World Series). So when the Red Sox left the gates in the spring with one of their best starts on record the folks at Jordan’s were in a state of apoplexy (a fancy term for complete and total panic). Rumor has it that they took out yet another insurance policy in case the “Babe’s” curse really was completely, totally, and utterly dead.

Fast forward through a 162 game MLB season, the Division Series, and the Championship Series and… Well, we have the Red Sox in the World Series. This means that I am within 4 games of getting my couch for free. Yes, I know that it might take 7 games to win those 4. Yes, I know that there is the small matter of the Colorado Rockies, the hottest team in baseball right now.

So here it is guys. Dustin, Yuke, Papi, Manny, et. al. If you don’t do it for the the accomplishment. If you don’t do it for the extra money. If you don’t do it for the ring. Do it for me. I want that couch for free.