QUOTE(RME JICO @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 01:13 AM)
The Sox DID appear on the cover, except they were in the little circle at the top. Which is just crazy for a major sports championship not to garner the cover's main spread. SI blew that one, and they said it was because the series ended in the middle of the week, but they could have ran it the following week, which they didn't. Just another snub for the Sox.
Doesn't really matter though, because a World Series championship trumps the cover of SI about 1,000,000 to 1.
As Hawk would say... that is total BS.
I have to believe when the World Series (or any championship series) is going on, they've designed a few covers in case either wins it, and can slap a photo behind it, and send it to print in a matter of minutes.
Even if they won the series 20 minutes before SI went to print, they could still have done it.