Sep 29 2008
And Then There Was One, Then One More
The Major League Baseball season for 2008, is alive and still waits for one single game to be played between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox. If, the White Sox win, they will force a one game Playoff against the Minnesota Twins for the AL Central Division Championship.
That is what makes every game in the MLB regular season so important, because if a game is postponed due to the weather the game can be replayed weeks after it was scheduled. The White Sox have struggled of late and lost the division lead, but sit a half game out of a tie to the Twins.
The Twins will win the Central Division Championship and a Playoff birth if the Tigers defeat the White Sox in todays game. If the White Sox win, the Twins will travel to Chicago and play the White Sox for all the marbles on Tuesday.
The White Sox game which was scheduled to begin today at 11 am pst, is currently under a rain delay, which is pretty ironic. The winner of this last Playoff spot will then travel to Tampa Bay to face the surprising Rays, which will play in their First Post-Season game in franchise history.
So whenever this game is completed, we might have to wait another day, and another game, to see who is going to take that last Playoff spot. It would be fun to see a one game Playoff for a Division Title, and judging by the two teams, it will be a tough battle.
The first hammer in the NFL has dropped, and the victim is not Oakland Raider Head Coach Lane Kiffin, but St. Louis Rams Head Coach Scott Linehan. After the team lost its 4th game of the season, without a win or really a close loss, the Rams have parted ways with its Coach.
Jim Haslett will take over Head Coaching duties in the interim, but it appeared that Linehan lost this team when he benched QB Marc Bulger for back-up QB Trent Green. He put all of his chips in on that switching of QB, and lost everything including the game.
J.M.Saucedo
