Rockies Win

Well, my brother's all excited. His Rockies have blitzed past Philadelphia. I'm not disappointed - sure, they're a wild-card team, but they won 90 games, more than anybody in the NL but Arizona, who also won 90, so they deserve it. And the playoffs will pit those two teams against each other. And in the AL, it's going to be Boston (best record) against, probably, Cleveland with the identical record - almost as if we were doing it the way it should be done - best two teams, divisions be damned.

So we won't have a repeat of last year's debacle. Remember?

Detroit: 95-67, .586 - wild card winner. Third best in their league, playing the World Series against St. Louis: 83-78, .516 - actual division winner at .516! Fifth in their league. Worse than a team that never had a chance to play in the Series. They actually were the champions. .516, fifth in their league ... and they're the champions.

I expect to watch the Series this year, even though neither of my teams made it. The best teams are there.

And even though I like Boston, I'll have to go with the Rockies ... for my brother.