As another baseball postseason without the Blue Jays approaches, let's take a break from the axe grinding world of our team and think about some of the other squadrons around the league.




Mainly, which team (or teams) on the cusp of the playoffs are you pulling for down the stretch?

The parity in all six divisions this season has been really quite interesting. Each current division leader has at least 80 wins, any wild card team has no fewer than 77, and the team with the worst record leading a division (Texas for now) would still be within five games of the best team (Atlanta). There were many concerns before last season that expanding the postseason to include ten teams would dilute the quality of playoff baseball and that may still be so (I for one do not like the idea of a third place team winning the World Series) but so far it has really invigorated the division races in September.
Such as in the National League Central, where my Reds (I'm sure you're all sick of me gushing about them by now) are in a pinball china-shop fight with the Pirates and Cardinals to take the division and thus avoid a one game wildcard playoff. I'll admit, despite my allegiance to Cincinnati, the Pirates being good again is too fantastic a story to cheer against. The American League West is shaping up as another close race between Texas and Oakland, while the wild card in the junior circuit has the loser of the West fighting against the Rays, Orioles, Yankees, Indians and Royals who are all within striking distance.

So let's hear it. Who are you rooting for?