Post-season largely to script
After seeing some of the most amazing series ever played in the postseason, it would seem crazy to say everything is going to script.
And yet, if you asked most baseball experts before the post season started, a Red Sox-Cards series was expected.
Take a look at the NL postseason first.
- The Cards had the best record in baseball, and handled the Dodgers as expected.
- The Astros were red hot going into the playoffs, while the Braves have a terrible post season record. It was no surprise the Astros won, and many including myself predicted the Braves would fold. My only surprise was that it went to 5 games.
- So the Astros and Cards met, and it went to 7 games. No surprise here, and clearly the best team won.
In the AL:
- No surprise the Yanks handled the Twins. It would have been a HUGE upset if the small-market Twins beat the Yanks.
- Red Sox handled the Angels, again predicted here and plenty of other places.
- The Yanks/Red Sox matchup was clearly the most difficult to predict. Given the mystique of the Yanks and the Sox history of choking, it was hard to say you KNEW what would happen. Still, there is no denying the Sox starters were better than last year, and they actually had a closer. Combine this with Torre overusing his bullpen all year, and starting pitching concerns, and it is hard to call it shocking that the Red Sox were able to win game 7 (when they couldn't last year).
So we have the team with the best record in baseball playing in the WS. No surprise, right?
And we have the team with the second best record in the AL playing in the WS. While the path they chose to get the playoffs was shocking, the fact they made it is not.
Through the first two games, the home team won. Again, not completely unexpected.
If things go as planned, the Cardinals will play like the team that won 105 regular season games and send this thing back to Boston.
It's in the script, didn't they read the script!! -----> lol
After seeing some of the most amazing series ever played in the postseason, it would seem crazy to say everything is going to script.
And yet, if you asked most baseball experts before the post season started, a Red Sox-Cards series was expected.
Take a look at the NL postseason first.
- The Cards had the best record in baseball, and handled the Dodgers as expected.
- The Astros were red hot going into the playoffs, while the Braves have a terrible post season record. It was no surprise the Astros won, and many including myself predicted the Braves would fold. My only surprise was that it went to 5 games.
- So the Astros and Cards met, and it went to 7 games. No surprise here, and clearly the best team won.
In the AL:
- No surprise the Yanks handled the Twins. It would have been a HUGE upset if the small-market Twins beat the Yanks.
- Red Sox handled the Angels, again predicted here and plenty of other places.
- The Yanks/Red Sox matchup was clearly the most difficult to predict. Given the mystique of the Yanks and the Sox history of choking, it was hard to say you KNEW what would happen. Still, there is no denying the Sox starters were better than last year, and they actually had a closer. Combine this with Torre overusing his bullpen all year, and starting pitching concerns, and it is hard to call it shocking that the Red Sox were able to win game 7 (when they couldn't last year).
So we have the team with the best record in baseball playing in the WS. No surprise, right?
And we have the team with the second best record in the AL playing in the WS. While the path they chose to get the playoffs was shocking, the fact they made it is not.
Through the first two games, the home team won. Again, not completely unexpected.
If things go as planned, the Cardinals will play like the team that won 105 regular season games and send this thing back to Boston.
It's in the script, didn't they read the script!! -----> lol
posted by Tom at
4:04 PM
