Baseball ribbing continued

Yesterday I left off on a joke about Royals and Yankees' fans. After seeing how most of the division races turned out it feels necessary to poke fun of a few teams. That and I need a distraction to take my mind off my favorite team (Cubs) not making the playoffs for the third straight year. It looks like Kansas City will finish the 2006 campaign with the worst record again, those 100 losses have to hurt. Tampa Bay is in the same boat and doesn't really have anything positive to note closing out the season.

In the past decade the Detroit Tigers held their worst records in club history. Now look where they are, heading to the playoffs for the first time since 1987. Fans from the Motor City won't have their hearts crushed just yet unlike those from Boston (Now all they have to look forward to is the Patroits succeeding and their precious 'clam chowder'). Luckily this year the New York Mets will be the talk of town and won't have to listen to the vicious insults from Yankee fans.

This postseason if lightning strikes twice and there is a Yankees, Mets matchup in the World Series everyone will know if passionate fans at the game pull a wild stunt like leaping from the upper deck their motivation won't be a catch a foul ball, but to brutally assault an opposing fan. I wouldn't be such a devilish act past that crazy New York crowd (don't be surprised if they carry knives, fish hooks, or guns with them). The Royals, Devil Rays, Cubs, Marlins, and Braves will be free of such controversy, but more concerned about who will they will have to fire.

A team that struggles to make the postseason year after year, but never actually improves is similar to a homicidal maniac who is granted a pardon and tries to be sincere with a judge, claiming he's trying to get his life back together. Then he goes on another killing spree. There is no moral lesson here (except don't committ murder) for a baseball team, though if they ever want to succeed and be a contender they must go above and beyond. This means do some wheeling and dealing, spend a chunk of money to get adequate talent. Otherwise it will be more of the same, fans being enraged and freely leaping from the seats onto the field because they can't stand it anymore.