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The Poet · 10-05-2009, 01:04 PM

Final weekend update, with footnotes, kudo and lament:

NYY = AL East Champs

SLC = NL Central Champs

LAA = AL West Champs

BRS = AL Wild Card

PP = NL East Champs

(y) Los Angeles Dodgers = 0 : Finally. After holding a six-game lead with seven to play, the Dodgers at last stopped dodging their NL West Championship and actually beat the Colorado Rockies - twice, even! Good golly Miss Molly, they eventually balled, which means . . .

(x) Colorado Rockies = Lost their way into the NL Wild Card, yet you've got to give them props for giving some late excitement to this race that never should have been - unlike the one I so brilliantly predicted . . .

Detroit/Minnesota = 1 : Alphonse, meet Gaston. Shake hands, have a clean fight, and may the lesser lousy team win. Oh, and if anyone is interested (I'm not, but that's another issue), I understand that Bucky Dent is available for a 1-day contract.

(y) = Clinched division championship

(x) = Clinched wildcard spot

Just as kudos were earned by Upton, I feel everybody's favorite boo-who Alex Rodriguez deserves a bump here. Not only did A-Rod have 7 RBIs with 2 HRs, and all in the same inning, but by doing so he helped the Yankees set a new team record for HRs in a season, and on a personal note he ended his regular season with a symmetrical 30 HRs and 100 RBIs - this after missing the first 6 weeks of the year due to his surgery, thus making his next 6 weeks be in effect his spring training. Plus, to add to the symmetry, note this trivia point - when A-Rod returned to the team after rehab, he hit the very first pitch he saw for a home run. Yesterday, he hit the very last pitch he saw for a home run. How often does that happen?

I need lament the fact here that the season is not yet over, thanks to the mediocrity of the AL Central. As Ozzie Guillen himself stated earlier this year, while his White Sox were struggling on the road, "We are losing all these games, but not losing any ground - that's because we ALL suck!". Now, don't get me wrong - there's nothing wrong per se with a one-game playoff to end the season, but it should be a game between teams that have some juice and history - Yanks/Red Sox, Dodgers/Giants, Cards/Reds, Braves/Mets - but who the heck beside their fans give a damn about Tigers/Twins? Just my

, but as this is my lament, that's all that matters.

May or may not continue.

10-05-2009, 01:04 PM	#27
The Poet Il megglior fabbro Join Date: Jun 2009 First Name: Thomas Location: Hickory, NC Posts: 8,420 Trading: (2)	Re: It's Magic Number Time! Final weekend update, with footnotes, kudo and lament: NYY = AL East Champs SLC = NL Central Champs LAA = AL West Champs BRS = AL Wild Card PP = NL East Champs (y) Los Angeles Dodgers = 0 : Finally. After holding a six-game lead with seven to play, the Dodgers at last stopped dodging their NL West Championship and actually beat the Colorado Rockies - twice, even! Good golly Miss Molly, they eventually balled, which means . . . (x) Colorado Rockies = Lost their way into the NL Wild Card, yet you've got to give them props for giving some late excitement to this race that never should have been - unlike the one I so brilliantly predicted . . . Detroit/Minnesota = 1 : Alphonse, meet Gaston. Shake hands, have a clean fight, and may the lesser lousy team win. Oh, and if anyone is interested (I'm not, but that's another issue), I understand that Bucky Dent is available for a 1-day contract. (y) = Clinched division championship (x) = Clinched wildcard spot Just as kudos were earned by Upton, I feel everybody's favorite boo-who Alex Rodriguez deserves a bump here. Not only did A-Rod have 7 RBIs with 2 HRs, and all in the same inning, but by doing so he helped the Yankees set a new team record for HRs in a season, and on a personal note he ended his regular season with a symmetrical 30 HRs and 100 RBIs - this after missing the first 6 weeks of the year due to his surgery, thus making his next 6 weeks be in effect his spring training. Plus, to add to the symmetry, note this trivia point - when A-Rod returned to the team after rehab, he hit the very first pitch he saw for a home run. Yesterday, he hit the very last pitch he saw for a home run. How often does that happen? I need lament the fact here that the season is not yet over, thanks to the mediocrity of the AL Central. As Ozzie Guillen himself stated earlier this year, while his White Sox were struggling on the road, "We are losing all these games, but not losing any ground - that's because we ALL suck!". Now, don't get me wrong - there's nothing wrong per se with a one-game playoff to end the season, but it should be a game between teams that have some juice and history - Yanks/Red Sox, Dodgers/Giants, Cards/Reds, Braves/Mets - but who the heck beside their fans give a damn about Tigers/Twins? Just my , but as this is my lament, that's all that matters. May or may not continue.