A 13-1 blowout can lead to some hand-wringing, excitement or hyperbole. After the Red Sox decimated the Rockies in Game One, here are what some of the nation's sportswriters had in their minds.

- Mike Littwin, Rocky Mountain News: "For days, you’ve heard about nothing but Fenway and poetry. Now, when you think of poetry, you wonder what rhymes with blowout."

- Jay Mariotti, Chicago Sun-Times: "Only Josh Beckett thinks Josh Beckett is normal. The rest of us see Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Tiger Woods, Google stock, Simon Cowell, F-16 fighter jets, monster trucks, Springsteen, dominance, impenetrability."

- Bob Ryan, Boston Globe: "Shorn of Whatever It Was that enabled them to transcend all reason as they stampeded into the playoffs and then over, under, around, and through the Phillies and Diamondbacks, the Colorado Rockies looked very much like a team that had not seen a living, breathing major league opponent in nine days, and sending them out against the hottest postseason pitcher in the galaxy bordered on cruel and unusual punishment.

- Mark Kiszla, Denver Post: "This was the worst beatdown on national television for a Denver sports team since the Broncos went to Super Bowl XXIV and all they got was a lousy T-shirt, not to mention a heaping helping of humiliation served by the San Francisco 49ers.

While Manny was being Manny and Boston played bingo-bango-bongo off the famous left-field wall, did anyone else have a bad Rocky Mountain flashback to Super Joe Montana?

- John Harper, New York Daily News: "Okay, so a little rust was to be expected from the Rockies after an eight-day layoff. But nobody expected them to show up collectively as the Tin Man."