Baseball Revisited

The league playoffs are set. Once again my Braves crapped out on me. Some things are so dependable. Still, I am not one to judge a whole season by the last few weeks. The Braves had a great season with a bad finish. The Royals had a bad season.

I don't know if there is any significance to this or not - I am not a numerology type person. But if I remember my order of preference correctly, my 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th teams made it to the next step. If that continues, it would mean the Cardinals playing the Yankees in the World Series, which is probably what most of the experts would expect. Unfortunately, it would also mean the Yankees would win.

Maybe it will switch now to odd numbers putting the Red Sox against the Astros in the World Series. But then if it switched back to even the Astros would win it all.

Why do the wild card teams do so well in the playoffs? Are they just loose - nothing to lose since they were kind of also-rans anyway? Or are they the teams which are peaking at the right time and really hitting their stride just as the post season begins? Or maybe a little bit of both.

Post season baseball is one of those bittersweet things for me: I really enjoy the playoffs unless the end result is two teams about whom I could not care less, but it also means there will be no more baseball until the Shockers start up in February or March when they play snow ball.