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In this morning's Debriefing MJD predicted that the magical powers of the Rockies dinosaur will lead the team to a sweep of the Boston Red Sox. If that doesn't come true though, Game Five will be played in Denver in Monday night. That creates quite a conflict for local sports fans because the Broncos will be hosting the Packers at the same time. The Broncos tried to alleviate that by asking the NFL to move the game to Sunday afternoon but the league wasn't down with that.

They will, however, move up the kickoff time a half-hour to 6 P.M. Mountain Time to help stagger traffic as 125,000 people flood downtown Denver to hit one of the two events. I'm not sure how much that's going to help.

Baseball hasn't announced a start time for Monday's game but each of the first four games will be starting at 6:00 in Denver and there's probably not much wiggle room in either direction if Fox hopes to draw the highest possible viewership. How exactly, then, would starting both games at the same time avoid a traffic snarl for the ages? I'm not sure what Denver's public transportation system is like but I'd recommend using it if possible.