Rockies fans should be rooting for the Rays

The League Championship Series begins today with the last two teams standing in the American League going head to head tonight. The National League begins tomorrow. The Rockies will not participate (sorry to those of you just clicking on a baseball website for the first time in 12 months), which means I find myself in the same place I do most Octobers—hoarding every inning of baseball I can get my hands on before the offseason like a squirrel gathering acorns for the winter.

Last week we covered the Purple Row Rooting Guide in a far more, Dinger-esque impressionistic sense than in years past, but we kept the poll in place. Based on those results, a plurality of us are very disappointed. The…