Baseball Playoffs!

Baseball Season is ready for the post season. I did okay in my prediction but not great, below are my predictions verses the reality.

American League

East
New York Yankees Yes they did as we all knew they would.
Central
Detroit Tigers Because they have the Triple Crown winner and should the MVP Miguel Cabrera. A-MA-ZING!
West
Texas Rangers Unbelieve! The Oakland Athletics beat the Rangers on the final day of the season to win the AL west by 1 game.
Wild Card
Boston Red Sox Move over Boston, move over Tampa Bay The Baltimore Orioles are back from over a decade of sucking ass.
Los Angeles Angels Texas Rangers won't be denied a playoff spot despite the Angels insane rookie Mike Trout

National League
East
Philadelphia Phillies The Phillies had a tumble of a season so our nations capital could have a run at it. The Washington Nationals  will have home field advantage throughout the playoffs. No Strassburg but there is a Harper.
Central
St. Louis Cardinals So Pujols' exit was felt and The Cincinnati Reds won the central. Good arms.
West
San Francisco Giants Called it.
Wild Card
Cincinnati Reds They won the division so the St. Louis Cardinals could once again show up in the Wild Card dress
Atlanta Braves They're doing it for Chipper and because the 90s are back in style

My crazy Prediction will be the San Francisco Giants stifling all bats to meet up with a Baltimore Orioles team that still doesn't know they're supposed to lose 90 games a year. We will have our first orange and black on orange and black series. Halloween fans freak out!

Baseball 2011: end of the regular season

Damn it! That's sort of what I said when Papelbon's fast ball was hit into the right center gap and the tying run came into score for Baltimore. "Oh No Crawford," is exactly what I said as the next batter flared Papelbon's pitch to Boston's struggling, big money free agent in left field. Just like the rest of his season he couldn't quite come through. Within a minute it seemed like Even Langoria hit his game winning home run against the Yankees to push his Tampa Bay Rays into the playoffs. The Red Sox had a collapse with a pre 2004 quality to it, being up 9 games or something at the beginning of the month and winding up having to win on the final day of the season to win the American League wild card.
The whole month of September it seemed they were down by three runs by the second inning and any lead the Sox could get was wasted by their bullpen in the late innings. My observation was that if 3rd baseman Kevin Youkilis had not been injured, the team's line up would have been able to generate those extra few runs over September that would have won them another game or two and starting if pitcher Clay Buchholz hadn't had his back problems he would have given them a least one quality start making all this a non issue. Nobody said being a Red Sox fan was easy.

The whole last night of the season was crazy and may be remembered for some time as one of the most exciting final days. Four teams (St. Louis, Atlanta, Boston and Tampa Bay) All looking for one more win just to play one more day. Only The Cardinals got their business done easily with a 7-0 rout of the Astros. The Braves choked up a lead in the ninth  and wound up losing to the Phillies in 14 innings; their season was just as ridiculous as the Sox'. Meanwhile down in Tampa the Yankees took a 7-0 lead into the 8th inning and blew it having to play twelve innings with the prevailing Rays. These games could send any fan into therapy.

Anyway below are the final standings and my predictions
American League
East: Yankees (Red Sox)
Central: Tigers (Tigers)
West: Rangers (Angels)
Wild Card: Rays (Yankees)

National League
East: Phillies (Phillies)
Central: Brewers (Brewers)
West: Diamond Backs (Rockies)
Wild Card: Cardinals (Braves)

What will the playoffs bare? I want a Detroit vs. Milwaukee World Series.