With football season kicking off in full force baseball is taking a back seat to the NFL. Only for a couple of weeks though as playoff baseball nears. Most of the division leaders are well ahead of the rest of their division rivals. The Red Sox, Indians, and Angels are almost shoe-ins for the playoffs. The Yankees are starting to pull away from the rest of the crowd in the AL wild card race. A four game lead for them is almost a definite, with the baseball they have been playing as of late. The Mets and Diamondbacks are pretty much assured themselves also of a spot. The NL Central is still open for the taking between the Brewers and Cubs but only one will make the playoffs. With other NL teams being at least four and a half games out of the wild card chase it's a good chance one of those teams will be eliminated. The NL wild card race is not looking so well as it looks like the playoff team out of this league may come as a default. In the last ten games it seems as if no one wants to step up and show they are in it to win it with the top four wild card contenders a combined two games above 500. Hopefully "America's pastime" will pick up as the chase really nears and some of us baseball fans will be able to enjoy the hunt for October.
Ray Weed reporting for Mike and Company
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