the biggest Red Sox fan:

my vote would go to best-selling author Stephen King.

I have the distinct memory of watching that American League playoffs where Boston came back to defeat the New York Yankees after being down three games to zero, and trailing in the late innings of Game 4. A particular scene where a television reporter was out in the stands to interview Stephen King, and there he was, holding out optimism that even with the odds so stacked against them, he said that the Red Sox could still win the championship. I remember thinking at the time, you poor, positive thinking fool! Well, good luck with that.

And so it was. The Red Sox came back to tie the series three games to three, and miracle of miracles, won the series against the Yankees altogether! It was almost an afterthought that they went on to win the World Series afterwards (sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals, which I just had to look up), except that it ended their World Series drought of 86 years.

Coming back from being down three games to none in a best of seven series is a rare accomplishment in the history of professional sports, but just happened in this year's hockey playoffs: the Philadelphia Flyers pulled it off against the Boston Bruins (Boston again, but this time on the other side of the coin). Why bring all this up and what does it have to do with my favorite sports teams? Because the San Jose Sharks find themselves down three games to none in the Western Conference Finals against the Chicago Blackhawks. It's a long road back, it hasn't been done many times before, but Sharks fans would do well to be like Stephen King. Yes, the Sharks can still win this...