If the baseball playoffs started today, September 26th

The more things get clearer, the fuzzier they really are.

Yeah the Dodgers clinched today, and that cemented another spot in the dance.
But besides the flip flopping in the AL Central, the tied NL Wild Card and Philadelphia looking over their shoulders... the Rays haven't clinched the East yet.

Could the Rays lose 3 in a row?
Could the Red Sox win 3 in a row and clinch the Division?

Oh I love this part of the year.

Let's look at the match ups:

DIVISION SERIES (Best of 5)

AMERICAN LEAGUE

LOS ANGELES ANGELS OF ANAHEIM (AL West)
has home field advantage over
BOSTON RED SOX (AL Wild Card)

TAMPA BAY RAYS (AL East)
has home field advantage over
MINNESOTA TWINS (AL Central)


NATIONAL LEAGUE

THE WILD CARD ONE GAME PLAYOFF

NEW YORK METS
at home versus
MILWAUKEE BREWERS

If the Mets win

NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES (Best of 5)

CHICAGO CUBS (NL Central)
has home field advantage over
NEW YORK METS (NL Wild Card)

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (NL East)
has home field advantage over
LOS ANGELES DODGERS (NL West)



If the Brewers win

NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES (Best of 5)

CHICAGO CUBS (NL Central)
has home field advantage overhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
LOS ANGELES DODGERS (NL West)

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (NL East)
has home field advantage over
MILWAUKEE BREWERS (NL Wild Card)

Following?
Pretty cool, huh?

So let's get on with business.

SULLY BASEBALL ARCHIVE CLIP OF THE DAY:
I make the case for the Orioles to change their caps back to the smiling bird.


SULLY BASEBALL PLUG OF THE DAY:

YOU CAN DO IT SAM by Amy Hest and illustrated by Anita Jeram
My kids love the simple but very sincere stories of Sam the Bear and his mom, Mrs. Bear. The plots of the stories are simple enough.
In Kiss Good Night Sam, Mrs. Bear needs to figure out what she forgot to do before Sam can fall asleep. (Title is a spoiler alert.)

In Don't You Feel Well Sam, Sam needs to take his medicine but won't.

The trilogy concludes with You Can Do It Sam, which is my kids favorite. Sam and Mrs. Bear travel from house to house delivering cakes and Sam is nervous about walking through the snow alone.

With their daddy about to jump face first into the playoffs, perhaps it is best that I read a lot to my kids now. Fathers out there let me recommend that.

Meanwhile me plugging this book is also a cry to Amy Hest herself... WRITE MORE SAM BOOKS!!!!!