The Baseball Playoffs Are Upon Us

This is the one time of year my wife becomes a baseball widow. Boy, I do love the baseball playoffs. As the regular season ends and the playoffs begin, here are a few thoughts...

-- The entire NL East finished at .500 or better. Only one team from the NL East (the Washington Nationals) had a record that wasn't good enough to win the NL West.

-- Mike Piazza will almost certainly be leaving the Mets after seven seasons at Shea. At the time he signed his $91 million contract, he was the highest paid player in baseball. Watching him give his all while running out routine ground balls demonstrated to me that he was a worthwhile investment. I'll miss him as a Met, and I hope that he does well as a DH and backup catcher for some American League team. Dude, he's totally gonna end up a Yankee, isn't he?

-- The Atlanta Braves (and their third baseman Wilson "Speechum" Betimet) won their 14th straight division title. Fuck those guys.

-- The San Diego Padres won the NL West with a record of 82-80, which is terrible for a division winner. But now I really hope they win the World Series.

-- The Chicago White Sox enter the post-season not having won a playoff series since 1917. Boy, those Chicago teams sure have a tough time of it.

-- Tom DeLay got himself re-indicted. It's not baseball, but it's awesome.

What I hope for the World Series:
San Diego Padres vs. Chicago White Sox

What I expect for the World Series:
St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Yankees

What I hope for Tom DeLay:
A prison cellmate that shows girlfriend Tom his hammer.

What I expect for Tom DeLay:
He gets off on some ridiculous technicality and insists he's been fully exonerated.