A Long Time Coming

For much of this season, the Chicago Cubs have had a huge chip on their shoulder called the Milwaukee Brewers. Even near the close of the regular season, the Brewers still hung around in hopes that they would get the NL Central or at least a wild-card bid. But no. The Cubbies are winners of the NL Central going up against the Arizona Diamondbacks & the Brewers are now sitting at home thinking about what might have been. Go Cubbies...it's been a long time since they got a chance to return into the playoffs. Could this year be a banner year for Chicago?

Speaking of what might have been: the Mets are also sitting at home, trying to make sense of their late regular season meltdown, one that cost them the NL East & with it a chance to make a racket in the postseason. The Philadelphia Phillies, the MLB's most losingest ballclub ever, is waltzing into the playoffs instead & should be feeling good that they paid their dues to get here (the last time they were in the postseason or won in their division was 1993). On the other hand, the Mets are at a loss to figure out why they let a 7-game lead slip away from their hands in the last 3 weeks or so...if there was a perfect example of self-destruction at its finest in the MLB, the Mets are that team you want to talk about more than anyone else.

Then one more game remains to be played to determine who gets to go on to the postseason as a wild card team when San Diego takes on Colorado...should shape up to be an interesting game as each ballclub is going to play as if there's nothing left to lose at this point.

In the NL, craziness has been the word of the day for the past few weeks. But at least there's some order in the court now, some of it coming from unlikely sources...Oh wait, the Cubs were overdue for a trip to the postseason. Then the Phillies...they love to play baseball; they never stopped believing that they could win the NL East even though their pitching was enough to make a lot of folks roll their eyes in despair. Arizona, too, is returning to its former days of glory as well. As for the winner of the Padres-Rockies game...no comment just yet.

At any rate, this postseason in the NL should be an awesome one if not crazy like the regular season. Of course, I'm rooting for the Cubs as always.

Fire up!!