When Pigs Fly

     For those of you who don't know, three teams clinched division titles last night: the D'backs, Rangers and the Brewers. I think the most important clinchers were the Diamondbacks and the Rangers because the Giants and the Angels were both closer in the division than the wild card and even though the Angels are only 3.5 games out of the wild card, the fact that they are eliminated from the division is pretty crushing.

     Another subject of this blog: Boston is collapsing!!!!!!!!!!!! Personally I want the Rays (Ow, my brother just hit me) but the Red Sox collapse is pretty pathetic; as my brother would say, "Epic fail!" I say, "Pigs have flown! Boston lost three out of four to the Orioles." In the National League, however, the Cardinals are just three games out of the wild card behind the Braves.

     In other news around Baseball... MLB is going to celebrate its 200,000th game tonight... Justin Verlander of the Tigers could get his twenty-fifth win if he wins tonight, against the Orioles, and there are five more regular season games left counting tonight.

     Thanks for reading, and go, Verlander!

CLINCH!!!

     I'm sure all of you have noticed that I've been slowing down on my posting of blogs and I'm very sorry, but I started school a few weeks ago and for the first time in my life I've been having homework, so I've decided to try to post a blog once or twice every week.
     Now let's get down to business: The main topic of this blog (if you haven't guessed already) is: THE TIGERS CLINCHED THE CENTRAL DIVISION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, since I'm a Tigers fan (if you didn't know) I think everything about them winning the division is great, but to me one thing stood out in particular: they won it by themselves. When I say that I mean they won it without help from any other teams. For example, if the Indians had lost the Tigers still would have clinched, even if the Tigers had lost. Now that the Tigers have clinched, their next goal is to have more wins than the Rangers, because if they do then they will have homefield advantage in the ALDS.
     In other news around baseball...with the Astros losing to the Cubs today, they now have 100 losses, a mark they have never set in their fifty-year franchise...Congratulations, Houston.
     Thanks for reading, and go Tigers!
P.S. I would have posted a picture but my mom's Mac is broken so I typed this blog with my step-dad's PC and I can't figure out how to get a picture on to my blog from a PC.

Playoff Preview: National League

     In my last blog I said I would do a preview of the National League pennant race and what I think about it, so here it is:

     I'll start with the east: Philly has this division basically locked down with eighty-eight wins and forty-six losses, with the closest team behind them being the Braves at eight and a half games, so I won't say to much about it except this: since the Phillies have the division locked down, I think their goal should be to have more wins than the Astros have losses.
      Now for the Central: it was only two months ago that the Central was an interesting, four-team struggle to win the division with the Pirates, Reds, Cardinals and the Brewers. But now, what can I say? It's the Brewers' division to win or lose, as they are currently ahead by 8.5 games.

    
     Who would have thought that after the Giants won the World Series last year they would be neck and neck with Arizona, lowly Arizona?  As my stepdad would say, "Who would'a thunk it?" My thoughts?  Well, the first thing I said when my brother told me the Giants were tied for first with the Diamondbacks was: Ha ha! Good joke... wait,  you're joking, right? When he confirmed that he was not joking, I realized that well, the Giants weren't going to be winning the World Series any time soon if they were tied for first place with the Diamondbacks.
     Thanks for reading and go, Tigers!