i dunno anymore. baseball... wow. what more can u ask for. these past few weeks have made me realize that nothing compares. forget the world cup, forget the NFL, hockey...pffft.
all this season has brought us fans should be remembered. from nomar to schilling, and everything in between. cano, howard, verlander, cabrera, liriano. the rises and falls of upcomers and old blood. frank fucking thomas getting exiled, only to come back with a STORM> the fall of the red sox, whom, in may, looked to be one of the historical teams that we remember with every aspect of the game covered and covered well. baseball made us remember its more than the 25 guys who take the feild when jimmy leyland grabbed a pathetic detroit tigers team and lead them to where they are. riding high on a pair of kids who took the long way to the majors, college. ryan howard's explosion in philly and that teams late season run to the playoffs. how joe girardi took a team that as a whole makes less than two dozen individual players on other teams on a TEAR in the second half. the surprising twins, who lost the stud youngster liriano, only to see guys like hunter, mauer, and morneu pick up the slack and knock off the defending champs from playoff contention. look out west. two old falling stars in Nomar and Piazza in the NL and the BIG HURT in the AL essentially giving thier teams a serious shot of adrenaline. the second guessing of the yanks early on, only to see them pick up a guy who didnt want to be a star and put him behind the captain and lets us NY'ers watch the lineup destroy pichting.
the coming of the new breed. verlander, howard, melky, canoe, liriano, zumaya, papelbon, cain. watch out for these kids, they are all winners. gonna be around for awhile and have impacts in future years.
the most entralling topic over the last 3 weeks has to be the (potentially) biggest collapse of regular season teams in that the cardinals, a tema everyone figured to be in the NLCS, managed to fall and fall,.... and fall again, only to get back up everytime and walk away, now stand 29 hours from the end of the season if they dont win out.
watching philly and houston, and even florida, come out of baseball pergurtory, to CHARGE on during the last month and a half. potentially killing some other worthy candidates.
the sudden re-emergance of El Duque, who in all effect, will have to single-handidly lead the Mets into uncharted ground. a team that lost their setup man, and recently, thier ace. right now he is the only guy who has gamed in the postseason on that team. shawn green has played, but is a shell of his old self, delgado hasnt ever played in a playoff game and the rest of the team outside of beltran, is inexperienced. that will be fun to watch, especially considering, and im a yanks fan ehre so i have seen it time and time again, el dueque simply makes people look stupid in big games. he has that jeter factor where the brighter the lights get, the more this guy relaxes and relishes the spot. i have seen him throw a 92 mph fastball and on the next pitch a 67 mile breaking ball that makes people trip over thier own legs.
and the cards. who are they, who do they want to be. with heroes like rolen and edmunds, and the new babe ruth at first, where are they going? hopefully they take the nest day and half and win big.
baseball. you cant ask for anything more.