I know I’ve been talking a lot about baseball lately, but it is October so I guess it’s justfied.

This post-season gets stranger every day.

Consider the two contenders who have the advantage right now.  First Detroit. 

They started the season VERY strong, but petered out in the last month of regular season and blew an 11-game lead to LOSE their division title to the Twins.  Luckily (for them) they won the AL wild card and now are going to the World Series for the first time since 1984.

Then there is St. Louis.  I know they aren’t in the World Series yet, but I think they have the advantage at this point (being up 2-1 to the Mets after Billy Wagner imploded the other night in the 9th inning and Trachsel imploded today in the first/second innings.  O. Perez is not a strong starter at all anymore.  I think the Cards will eat his lunch tomorrow…)  Anything could happen, the table could turn, but I’d be really surprised if the Mets win this series.  The momentum seems like it’s all Cardinals to me.

And you might remember that St. Louis also got out to a very strong start, but nearly blew their division lead to Houston in an almost historic end-of-the-season collapse.  They slid in there and have made things happen at the right time…without "dominate" pitching.

So we have two teams that started the season out as world-beaters who faltered after the half-way mark and barely scraped their way into the post-season.  And it’s possible (I would say highly likely) that these two (manic-depressive?) teams will end up facing each other in the World Series.

Now that’s exciting baseball. 

Being an American League kinda-guy (who also loves Yankee-killers!) I think I’m pulling for Detroit (sorry, Jason) although I would like to see Pujols get his due.  That guy is amazing.

P.S. Another former-Mariner has been shining this post-season and I thought I should point it out.  Who?  Scott Spezio?!?  Yeah, that guy was a real train wreck when he played in Seattle.  He couldn’t hit ANYTHING.  He was slumping so bad I think he had to try-out to make the Cardinals roster in Spring Training this last year.  And now suddenly he’s an RBI machine in the post-season.  He’s hitting important hits, too–at crunch time.  It’s just sickening how seemingly middle-of-the-road-players can suddenly be AWESOME when they aren’t in a Mariner uniform.  (I think Spezio already has a World Series ring, too, from when Anaheim won the World Series a few years back.)  Makes me wonder if the Mariners just need to hire a good hitting coach?  Hmmmm….