While the Colorado Rockies have won what seems like 55 of their last 56 baseball games, they are still underwhelming underdogs in the 2007 World Series to the Boston Red Sox.

And for good reason. Colorado doesn't stand a chance in the fall classic, which gets under way in Boston on Wednesday.

First and foremost, Boston has Josh Beckett available for games 1, 4 and 7, meaning that Colorado can be all but guaranteed of three losses in this series. Beckett has been that dominant, and when you consider that Colorado took care of Arizona while batting under .230, you wonder if a four or five-game series isn't pretty much guaranteed.

Honestly, I hope this is what the BoSox are expecting in the Rockies -- that they're a team happy to be there, a lucky team, a historical loser that will again learn how to fail spectacularly.

Why do I hope this? Because I absolutely believe that for whatever reason the Colorado Rockies are a team of destiny. Maybe it's the stars. Perhaps, it's the Coors beer. Could be good karma for Todd Helton, a good guy who has waited it out in the big leagues, with a perennially bad franchise, for a chance to play some postseason baseball.

They play what we baseball fans refer to as quintessential National League baseball. Did you know that in the NLCS, they basically dominated the Diamondbacks with singles?

They nubbed them to death. Hit and ran. Good pitching. Great defense.

If you love fundamental baseball at its best, the 2007 Colorado Rockies' postseason run has been one for the ages. And, the advantage that National League baseball always had during the runs St. Louis would make in the 1980s is that the other guys could have power and stars and such, while the Cardinals would have speed, pitching, defense and strategy.

That's right, strategy. I'm an American League guy, but I'm also the first to admit that the NL has a leg up on the AL when it comes to strategy, and that will be a giant advantage for Colorado in games 3, 4 and 5.

When to take out a pitcher. When to double switch. Knowing when to leave your pitcher in to bat because he can hit a curve.

Sure, Boston didn't have any problem with that in 2004 against St. Louis. However, that Cardinals club didn't come from as far back as these Rockies, and I'd submit that Colorado's ascension to the pinnacle of the baseball world has been built on postseason brains as much as brawn.

I'm a bit concerned that too much time has passed for Colorado to maintain its momentum into Wednesday night's Game 1 in Boston. Heck, and I know that Boston's star pitching and star hitting and all that will probably be way too much for Colorado in the end.

But I also know that this feels a lot like a Disney movie ... and you know who always wins at the end of those.