Slouching towards October

Despite the Mets' best efforts at blowing the National League East Division Title only catastrophe sits between them and the post-season. Not that we should rule out such a catastrophe but here's hoping. The baseball plyoffs feel like something of a lottery to me. Last year St. Louis crept in and won the World Series; this year they are nowhere near even making the playoffs. Perhaps the very fact that a team can dominate a division with a 60/40 win / loss record defines a sport where anything can happen on the day and over a five or seven game series. So the conclusion is we might win it all....or we might not.