Who's happier than Red Sox fans right now?

Okay, probably Colorado Rockies fans, who are living their own little "Do you believe in miracles, Yes!" autumn, with their miraculous charge to the NL Wild Card, complete with one-game playoff demolition of the Padres to get to the postseason, and ridiculously easy run to the World Series.

And certainly execs at the Fox Network have to be jumping around their offices, smashing into walls and knocking framed Rupert Murdoch photos to the floor, with how this ALCS has turned out. It looked to be a real snoozefest after Game One, with the Red Sox systematic dismantling of Cleveland. Since that point, though, there have been two separate and clear momentum shifts, as the Indians knocked Boston down and nearly out with their seven run 11th inning in Game Two, only to see Josh Beckett grab momentum back for the Sox with his masterful Game Five performance.

So, aside from those two groups of folks (Foulkes?), Sox fans are pretty much sitting on top of the world. Their club has risen from more graves in recent memory than Bela Lugosi, but the question now is can they complete the comeback?

For me, the answer depends upon two things:

1) Selectivity by the Boston hitters. They have made a living all season long by working counts and getting into good hitting situations. They inexplicably abandoned that philosophy the first time around against Jake Westbrook and Paul Byrd, however, and paid the price. If the Red Sox hitters get impatient tonight and chase Westbrook's sinker out of the strike zone like they did in Game Three, it will be a long night for the offense with very little to show for it.

2) Daisuke Matsuzaka. Which Dice-K will show up? The guy who throws about twelve different pitches, including the mythical "Gyroball?" The guy who struck out ten men in two of his first three big league starts? Or the pitcher who stumbled through the last two months of the season and hasn't made it through the fifth inning yet in the postseason?

Here's my take: Dice-K works his way in and out of trouble through five innings, while the Sox hitters make Westbrook get his pitches up into the strike zone. Don't be surprised to see Hideki Okajima as early as the sixth inning and then Josh Beckett in a one-inning cameo in the seventh - it's his day to throw on the side anyway, then Papelbon in the eighth and ninth.

The Final: Red Sox 7, Indians 5

Any thoughts?