The Playoffs are Here!

The Major League Baseball regular season has come and gone, and there was no better way to end it than an extra innings, one game playoff for the Wild Card.

The Mets and Brewers completed their monumental collapses in the past week, with the Brewers squandering a lead that was almost 10 games as early as the all-star break. And the mets are the only team in history to let a 7 game lead with 17 to go get away.

The Diamondbacks will square off with the Cubs and Phillies will have to go up against the flaming hot Rockies in the NLDS.

I don't think the D-Backs will have much trouble with the Cubs, for the simple fact that Arizona has Brandon Webb who has a chance at a second straight Cy Young (especially with how Jake Peavy threw in the play-in game). The Diamondbacks are one of three teams in history I believe, to be outscored which makes their run to the best record in the National League just that much more impressive.

The Philadelphia/Colorado series will probably be the most fun to watch if you are a fan of high scoring baseball games. The Phillies had a team ERA of 4.73, 4.32 for the Rockies. The Phillies and Rockies also scored the most runs of the National League teams.

In the American League, the Yankees will face the Indians, and Boston will have to go up against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of California of the Southwest of United States.

I think the best team in baseball is the Angels, who are three deep in the rotation and have the speed to put pressure on the Boston defense. The lineup of Anaheim is also very deep and will have no problem scoring runs.

The Yankees were not supposed to be here. They were buried by just about everyone after the first two months of the season. Yet here we are and they are going to make life difficult for the Indians, who finished the season with the widest margin between first and second place teams in baseball. The offense of the Yanks is definitely something for the Indians to worry about, but Cleveland should not have a tough time scoring runs on the overworked Yankee pitching staff.

All in all, you couldn't ask for a much better regular season, and there is no doubt in my mind that the playoffs will be just as exciting.