The good news--we won't have to stay up late this weekend watching any more baseball games. Also, Patricia, being from St. Joseph originally, and still having a lot of family in eastern Missouri, including St. Louis suburbs, is happy.

And there's not really that much bad news. No one at the beginning of the season expected the Tigers to even necessarily break .500, let alone get into the playoffs, and if you'd told anyone that they'd be in the series, they'd have thought you were nuts. But you don't win a world series with eight errors, particularly when many of them come from the pitching staff. But, all things considered, there's always next year for Motown...

Condolences from St. Louis. A classy team the Tigers, but bad breaks and errors are killers.

Still, it's a party in STL tonight! Woohoo!

Paraphrased from Moneyball,
"statistically speaking, the playoffs a crapshot." 15% of the time, the worst team in baseball will beat the best team in the best of 7 games.

I am still happy the Astros won the NLCS last year (and at least made the last game of the regular season count this year). Winning the World Series would certainly be better, but in the case of Houston and Detroit, there is a lot to be said for at least taking second place.