Today is the last day and there are two wild card races that were over last month still to be decided. As a Mets fan, i would like to see two more games tomorrow. As a fantasy manager, i have Ellsbury and Scutaro - so Sox and Jays win today. I also picked up Myers, so the Cards and Braves get to lose. I rarely post about sports any more - but the metric performance measures of baseball are the most accurate long-term science records that i have ever seen. Just imagine what it would be like if we measured the performance of GMO crops on land with the intensity that we measure Jacoby's batting average.
My favorite baseball blog is From the Bleachers. I haven't seen Moneyball yet, but i expect to see it sometime soon. I wanted to read the book first, but y'know - people who read this book don't abandon it to used book stores. It stays on the shelf - like any good book. Perhaps, in our new way of thinking, we can incorporate the lessons of life and sports into a common culture - play fair and leave the game competition on the field. Cooperative competition - we are all in the same league, but there are different measure of people performance that tell us how we are doing, in relation to where we are. The metric used to be money.
So my Mets had a terrible season off the field and still managed to put out an entertaining product. Are the Phillies going to win as many consecutive NL East crowns as the Braves did, or will my Mets actually assemble a talented team. One of these years, Steve and I will get to go to a game - i want to see a ball reach the bay in McCovey cove. For those of you who don't speak the language - that is the way life works. You can speak many languages, if you tune you ear properly - but you have to decide what is worth it.
Gee, I like being a curmudgeon. Let the playoffs begin tomorrow!
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