The MLB playoffs are approaching and it seems the two teams in New York are at their usual positions. The Yankees just clinched their 13th straight appearance to the post season, while the Mets are trying to choke the playoffs away. That's why the first five months of the baseball season mean nothing. The Mets early on were cruising to their second straight division title and seemed to be the class of the NL. While over in the Bronx, the Yankees were reeling, there was talk of firing Joe Torre, and they were 14 1/2 games behind the Red Sox. The Yankees might not win the division, but they made a race out of it, and afterwards there was champagne and tears flowing. Call me unsympathetic, but aren't the Yankees and the Mets supposed to be there. Here are two teams with the highest payrolls in their respective leagues. It isn't like some upstart small market team like the Royals or the Pirates making the playoffs. As usual Joe Torre was his emotional self. I guess those Dick Vermiel classes paid off. It all seems disengenuis to me, and if someone gave me a $200 million dollar payroll, I think I could manage more than a wild card birth. The Mets are in danger of not even making the playoffs with the best team money could buy in the NL. Here's to them choking this one away. You'll forgive me if I root for a playoff without the Mutts and the Skanks.
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