Just a thought.

One of the things I love about baseball is that nothing is a given, especially in a short series. Being the situational game of inches that it is the pirates could come into Yankee Stadium and Seewp the Yanks.

Would I be pissed? Oh hell yeah. Would I be suprised though? Oh, hell no.

Any team can get hot for a stretch. The difference is, with bad teams they aren't doing it on a consistent enough basis in order to accumulate the 90 or so wins it normally takes to qualify for the playoffs.

But there is plenty of regular season drama and personal stories to make things interesting, especially this year.

That's why despite the obvious greater popularity that the NFL and NBA enjoy over it in this country it will always be our National Pastime.

So good luck to all your teams, no matter how red their sox are.

Oh, and great win by the yakns over the sawx last night, huh?