A Brief Interlude

I wanted to take a brief interlude from my barely begun series about our trip west to say something about baseball, a sport of which I am a fan.

At the beginning of the seventh month of regular season play (and ninth month of activities for players) and after 161 games out of 162 in the regular season, my Yankees are tied with the Rays for the lead in the East and for the best record in the American League, which means that while fans know that the Texas Rangers and the Minnesota Twins will join the Yanks and Rays in the playoffs, it still hasn't been determined who will be playing whom. That seems kinda crazy to me; nobody ran away with anything this year...and if both the Yanks and Rays lose and the Twins win, there could be a three-way tie for tops spot in the AL.

The National league is even more screwy: The San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, and Atlanta Braves comprise a group, out of which two of the teams are going to the playoffs. Nobody knows and there's only one game left in the season. After tomorrow, they might enter a three-way tie and have crazy play-and-then-travel-and-play games.

It's made for a pretty exciting year.