So most people will be talking bout the great football games today and tomorrow, but as I'm from St. Louis and not really a southern college football fan, i'm more interested in Baseball. On a side note being from St. Louis you really don't have a team to root for. My Friend Bud might say Mizzou, but they're about the biggest let down year over year and never seem to capitalize on their size and the fact they're the school in Missouri as far as football goes. I actually grew up watching Notre Dame games with my dad. I think with the catholic background, and the fact that the games are always on and the history (Rudy!) I just really connected with the team. Plus my favorite QB growing up was Joe Montana.
So anyway, back to baseball. I think this is by far one of the most exciting years in baseball's history. You got Bonds of course, which though I hate him he's pretty much the man. Then Ichiro who I think is the most amazing player right now, even more than Bonds, the guy comes from Japan and tears it up. They were saying he'd probably would have broken Pete Rose's record if he had come over sooner. Plus you have these two amazing stories of the Braves and Astros who had crappy years at the all star break and turned their teams on and the Braves won the division with some room to spare, and the Astros I think will wiin the wild card.
Plus the races in the west are so amazing. I don't like California baseball, but races that aren't decided to the second to last day is pretty dang amazing.
I'm liking how the playoffs are shaping up. True the cards have sort of closed up shop the past few weeks, but with some injuries starting to finally hit them i think it was wise--Carpenter's out for the NLCS most likely. I also like how we'll have (most likely) the Astros vs the Braves and the Cards vs the Dodgers, most likely. Either way the cards won't play the astros, which I'm thankful for because they're on fire and I think they could do some damage. Biggio and Bagwell I think want it bad enough that they're ready to win some big games. And Clemens is a machine. Just think if they had Pettite. The only thing I don't want to happen is the Giants get the wild card, i don't like them, they're tougher i think then the astros. Bonds is so difficult and throws the whole game off.
SHould be an interesting week next week.