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What I Saw This Post Season

Mike DiPatri   11/2/10

 What a post season this was.  The two teams with the best seasons got really beat up in the play-offs as the Rangers beat both the Rays and the Yankees.  Really, the only series that went the way everyone expected was the ALDS between the Yankees and Twins.  The funny series was Rangers-Rays.  All games won were away games.  The Rangers won three in Tampa and the Rays won two in Arlington.  

 In the National League, the Giants ruined Bobby Cox’s last post season then kicked off on the Phillies who surely were the favorites.  I was wondering who these Giants were.  It didn’t seem as though they had any names, but they were getting it done.

 Then in the ALCS the Yankees fell victim to a malocchio.  For those of you who do not know what that is, it’s a curse on somebody usually by someone who is jealous or envious.  I always thought it was just a silly superstition, but after watching the Yankees’ bats fail, I started to think.  A lot of people are jealous, even envious of the post season success the Yankees have had throughout the years.  Maybe someone in Texas used that curse to put the Yankees bats to sleep.  Throughout the series it seemed as if the Yankees left their bats at home. 

 So, while the Rangers finished off the Yankees, the Giants put away the Phillies.  This set up a really historic World Series.  The Rangers had never been there and the Giants had not won a Series since 1954. 

 In the Series, though, the Rangers’ bats that had been so hot went to sleep.  Looking at the write-ups, the Giants pitching baffled the Rangers, but I think maybe somebody went into the Rangers’ clubhouse and stole Jaboo’s rum.  Is very bad to take Jaboo’s rum!

 But the Giants’’ pitching is not all that was shining.  They also beat Cliff Lee twice.  Then in the final game, a really cool thing happened.  Edgar Renteria got the Series winning hit when he hit a three-run homer.  What’s cool about that is in 1997, he got the Series winning hit for the Marlins.  How cool is that?  And I saw them both! 

 Though a Yankees fan, I found this post season to be really exciting.  The teams that won really beat the other team.  Nobody gave anything away.  In the end though, the Giants, with no real big names put everything together at exactly the right time and won their first World Series since 1954 and the first since they moved to San Francisco.