I don't think any team has ever swept through the playoffs and the world series, *winning* each sweep.

However, the Rockies just completed the postseason, making all the way through the world series, such that every playoff series was decided by a sweep (even though they lost the last one). Are they the first team to do that?>

Of course, it only makes sense to look at World Series play after the introduction of League Championships.

The <1976 Reds> swept Philly 3-0 and the Yankees 4-0 in the World Series.

Since the introduction of two playoff series (or is it "serieses"?), both the <1999 Yankees> (3-0 vs. Texas, 4-1 vs. Boston, 4-0 vs. Atlanta) and the <2005 White Sox> (3-0 vs. Boston, 4-1 vs. Anaheim/California/LA, 4-0 vs. Houston) have come very close to a perfect sweep but haven't managed to pull it off.

Also note that over the last ten years there have been no fewer than five World Series sweeps and only two have gone all the way (2001 and 2002).

On the other end of the spectrum, all the series of the 1972 and the 1973 postseason went for the maximum number of games. In 1985 and 1986 all the series went for full length except for one that went for one game less.

Don't worry, I'm not a walking baseball encyclopedia. I found all these answers here: http://www.baseball-reference.com/p....

Of course, that's the one where Kirk Gibson, with 2 gimpy legs tapped the two-out two-run walk-off homer to beat Oakland 5-4.

Of course, as <YouRang> pointed out, A's lost to the Dodgers in '88, but they swept the SF Giants in '89 (Earthquake series) and the A's got swept by the Cincinnati Reds in '90.

First I only did the upgrade. That's when I got two bluescreens. Somehow they went away.

Then the airport would not be detected anymore. Here's the solution to this problem: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php....

Everything was fine for a week. Then a new software update was out (iTunes and QuickTime). After installing Finder wouldn't start anymore. I tried everything! Archive & Install, Erase & Install, completely erasing the hard drive and installing Tiger or Leopard, nothing worked and there was nothing in any of the forums. I finally found a solution: http://discussions.apple.com/thread....

Two things:

1. If this were Windows, I would probably just shrug it off. But with a Mac? I've done more reboots (including shutting it down the hard way) over the last ten days than in three years.

2. Now that I'm up and running again, the worst thing is the feeling that remains. Whenever I start the computer I think "God, I hope this boot will work". I've never had this thought before and I don't like it.

I mean, I was going to buy a life-membership, but seeing how cu8sfan got robbed, I might just hold off.