Major League Baseball Weekly Review

The playoff landscape is starting to take shape.

The Los Angeles Angels have the advantage of setting up their rotation and resting key players before the start of the 2^nd season.

The Chicago Cubs now share a similar situation after clinching the division.

The Tampa Bay Rays have clinched a playoff spot, but have not wrapped up the division title. They lead Boston by 1.5 games.

The Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers are in the driver’s seat for their respective playoff berths. It would take a huge collapse for either not to make it in. If one of them were to fail to reach the postseason, it would be the White Sox who could see their 2.5 game lead disappear if they are swept at Minnesota this week.

The Philadelphia Phillies hold a 1.5 game edge over the New York Mets. The Phillies are 9-1 over their last 10 games while the Mets are just 4-6. Sound familiar?

If the Mets can’t catch the Phillies, they are likely to capture the wild card spot. They lead the Milwaukee Brewers by 1.5 games and the Brewers can’t seem to string anything together this month. They are 5-15 in September.

If Tampa Bay holds off the Red Sox, then Boston will take the American League wild card.

September is always a surprise as you see veterans get hot or maybe rookies get a call up and impress.

Adrian Gonzalez, Prince Fielder, Carlos Pena, Shin-Soo Choo, Jorge Cantu and David Ortiz all have at least 3 homeruns and 10 RBI this week. Only Ortiz carries a batting average under .368, but the stat of the week is Ryan Garko’s .833 batting average!

Dan Haren, Kyle Davies, Ryan Dempster, Ted Lilly, Scott Lewis, Tony Pena, Brad Ziegler and Daisuke Matsuzaka each picked up 2 wins this week. Joakim Soria and Brad Lidge closed out four games apiece for their clubs.

Fast, Being A Punk & Stupid Is No Way To Go Through Life

While most of the nation was laughing hysterically at DeSean Jackson’s blunder on TV last night. I must admit, I almost fell off my chair in disbelief and had to repeatedly wipe my eyes because I couldn’t believe what I just saw.
His actions disgusted his head coach Andy Reid & just about every fantasy football owner in the country that needed those 6 points that were taken away from them once officials confirmed that he let the ball go before entering the end zone.
How can a professional athlete get so excited about his first NFL touchdown on Monday Night Football that he completely forgets to cross the pile ons before tossing the ball like a teenager does a pack of cigarettes that he’s not suppossed to have?
DeSean’s new nickname for the rest of the season should be “Premature Jackulation” for celebrating what could have been a 61 yard touchdown strike too early!
Lucky for “D. Jackulation”, the Eagles are way to thin at receiver to bench him and it looks like the NFL’s next hybrid receiver may be Donovan McNab’s new favorite target on the team!
Regardless of talent, I think the Eagles should force DeSean Jackson to run 100 61 yard go routes in practice every day and tape every single one of them with a slow motion camera to make sure he crosses the white stripe before alowing him to go home.
If that’s not good enough, maybe he should start taking 1 pill of Ropex everyday to help him last a little longer to make sure he gets the job done!
Hopefully DeSean realizes that Fast, Being a Punk and Stupid Is No Way To Go Through Life!