America's Pastime? Not Mine This Year!! :(

Wow! What a Postseason huh? Actually no it wasn't. Every match up that took place was a mismatch, but you see that's what I don't get. I mean on paper every match up except one was either pretty equal or one team was just a smidgeon better.  I don't know what happened, but I seriously do not enjoy it when one team gets the brooms out for the other, especially in the first round of the biggest stage in Baseball. The second round doesn't hurt as much simply because the team has showed they have what it takes to at least advance further, but a quick three and out in the first round? Come on now, at least put forth an effort!  The only team out of the three that got swept early that I will stand up for is the Minnesota Twins, and for more than one reason. They took it to the Yankees all year long, they would get the lead early and the starting pitching carried them all ten match ups against the "Bronx Bombers" but then as soon as the starting pitcher would exit and as soon as the Twins got a miniscule enough lead to at least get a tiny bit comfortable, there come the Yankees tearing the hearts out of every Minnesotan including myself and I'm a Californian. I mean that goes to show you the Yankees are not only unfair to face in a game, especially the grandest stage of them all, but that they have too many overpaid employees and because of those same overpaid employees, their lineup card is completely filled with offensive threat after offensive threat and how can that be fair up against a small market team like Minnesota? Well I can answer that in a blink of an eye, "it doesn't!! It does not people! It doesn't make any sense at all and I wish that the fans had a say in who the new Commissioner is going to be because we definitely need a much younger and broad minded one compared to the one we have now"! That's just what I think and I'm sure tons agree with me. Of course the Yankees get the calls in the postseason, the umpires pretty much singlehandedly screwed over the Twins multiple times in that division series and it made my skin crawl. What I found funny was that in the other American League series with the Angels and Red Sox, the Angels got the majority of the calls for them, that is kind of odd simply because the Red Sox have the most tradition and that since they have won a lot you'd think that the umpires would want them to win as well as the Yankees but I guess they (like me) have had enough of the Red Sox as well.  You cannot have both anymore because the public just gets too tired of it, so the new kid on the block this year was the Angels and they figure the lesser of the two evils was the Yankees, which in my opinion sucks because the Yankees look like an incredible team this year even without the bad calls from the umpires. But then again, that's due to the high payroll of the team. I have been a strong proponent of salary cap in Baseball for a long time now. It is unfair for big market teams like the ones in New York to get all the money while the smaller market teams like my beloved Padres have to suffer by only having a smidgeon of money every year to work with and people wonder why they never win...Gee let's think here, "we can't get a big bat or a good pitcher because we don't have any money to pay them, so we have to draft guys out of high school or college and have to wait for them to get good". That is why they (and other small market teams) never win because of the monetary issue.
I have never liked how teams win every year but this year is pretty different. The Phillies have showed me that they have what it takes and they definitely earned it from being down in a lot of games and showing the poise to come back and win. That shows not only heart but shapes the character of a team and that is very special once you have that. I can't wait for my team to have that. Just like the Yankees from the late 90's and Oakland A's from the late 80's, the Phillies might be that team of the 2000's era. Baseball is a funny game, but if we do away with all the small market this, big market that, and make all teams equal and on the same level then perhaps more people will watch the games and more fans will emerge and the end of the season pennant races will be more exciting because you won't have the same teams to watch every single season in the playoffs and thats the day where I will smile more, be sad less, and live a very happier life than I already do. That is the stuff of dreams, come on Baseball make it happen!