It's Been A Great Postseason So Far

     Sometimes I think it's hard to get interested in the MLB postseason when your team isn't in the playoffs, but I had no problem doing that this season.  Really, it started before the playoffs, in the last week of the regular season.  I'm not anti-Red Sox or anti-Braves (okay, truthfully, I don't much care for the Red Sox), and if you check my pre-season predictions I had the Sox and Braves in the World Series, so I was rooting for them as much as anyone.  But, to see the two wild card teams, the Rays and Cardinals, come back from huge deficits to barely make it into the playoffs was extremely entertaining.  Also, I'd always rather see the teams with the positive momentum get in the playoffs rather than the teams who barely hung on to their regular season lead.

     I had a feeling this postseason would be good, and the biggest reason for that was that I can't remember a year when I had less confidence in the two top seeds in each league.  The Phillies and Yankees ended the regular season on a whimper, both seemingly for different reasons.  The Yankees made it clear that they only had one motivation for the last week of the season; to make sure their starters were healthy for the playoffs.  They benched a lot of their regulars against Tampa Bay, and it didn't hurt that losing to the Rays would help keep the Red Sox out of the playoffs.  The Phillies manager Charlie Manuel however, let everyone know that they would be trying as hard as usual in the last week of the regular season, but they struggled as well.

     Sure enough, The Phillies and the Yankees both lost in the first round, leaving four hungry teams who aren't always playoffs fixtures, in the Cardinals, Brewers, Rangers, and Tigers.  I wanted to write on here and make playoffs predictions, but I honestly couldn't.  This year's playoffs were as unpredictable as possible, that is what made it so great.  The Rangers and Cardinals of course moved on in the League Championship Series' and are getting ready for the World Series.  I think this series will be as good as the rest of the playoffs has been.  I'm not at all confident in being able to predict how this will turn out, but I'll take the Rangers in 7.