Go ahead and sing that to the famous tune from “The Wizard of Oz.”

Good times.

The Boston Red Sox aren’t winning anything. Specifically, Boston’s insufferable fans aren’t going to win anything, not this fall, and that’s wonderful.

The Red Sox Nation can go back to whining and suffering and all that self-absorbed crap that is so them.

Meanwhile, we’ve got a fun World Series. Not a World Series that will attract lots of viewers. But a really fun World Series for the serious ball fan.

Philadelphia Phillies vs. the Tampa Bay Rays. How great is that?

Both this teams are professional underdogs. To the point that it’s hard to decide who is more underdoggy.

The Phillies have won one World Series in their 126-year history. OK, yeah, some of that history precedes the World Series itself, so the stat is a little inflated, but you get the idea.

These guys aren’t the Yankees. Or the Cardinals. Or the Dodgers. Or even the Athletics, the team with which they used to share Philly. The Philadelphia Athletics won five World Series before leaving for Kansas City and, then, Oakland, where they have won four more.

The Phillies four victories from the World Series? That’s news. This is the only team ever to lose 10.000 games, remember (more than 1,100 more than they’ve won, all0-time). And nobody is close to 10,000. Not even the Cubs. The Phillies had bad decades. Bad generations. And the one World Series victory, in 1980.

And then we’ve got the Rays, who went through 10 seasons about as bad as anyone in baseball history. (Actually, they may have been THE 10 worst, collectively, but I’m not the Elias Bureau, you know?) They went 645-972 their first 10 years, losing 99 games or more five times.

They won 70 games only once in their first 10 seasons of existence.

Read that again.

Only once in their first 10 seasons (they made their debut in 1998)  did they win 70 games. That was in 2004, when they went 70-91. That was “good” in Tampa/St. Pete. Not that anyone much noticed. The Rays were one of the worst-supported teams in ball, too. They had no history of anything but misery, and fans don’t find misery lovable until it hits, like, 20 or 30 years.

Then, 2008 comes along, they drop the “Devil” from their name (they used to be the Devil Rays) and now they win. Coincidence? Or proof that God noticed?  Hmm.

Anyway, these Rays went 97-65, which is a seriously good year, and now they are in the World Series — by beating the loathesome Red Sox (and bumming out their disgusting fans) in seven games. Hurrah. Good job, kids! Almost makes SoCal forget the Angels going out in the first round.

Yes, a Dodgers-Red Sox World Series would have excited more people. And drawn lots more eyeballs to TVs. The Manny Ramirez subplot alone would have been epic.

But the Dodgers didn’t deserve to be there,  and I didn’t want the Red Sox there, so this World Series is fine. Let the Rays and Phillies slug it out to see who gets to feel good after feeling bad for so long.

Me? I’m feeling great.

Everybody, sing!

“Ding dong, the Sox are dead …”