Playoffs - Divisional Round

I have been watching - and blogging about - a lot of baseball lately. But with all these quick series, I'm on baseball withdrawal so I feel the need to blog again. For me, the divisional round made two impressions. First, only one series went past 3 games. This means there are no games till Thursday, thanks to the new schedule based on TV contracts. Only one series clinching game was really all that exciting. The Rockies had three straight hits with two outs to score the go ahead run in the bottom of the eighth. It was a pretty good game. The Cubs and Angels both got beat down, and the Yankees were never really in that fourth game.

But the main impression the Divisional Round made on me can be summed up in 2 words: Frank TV. Now I'm not really sure what Frank TV is going to be about, but TBS is certain that it's going to be awesome. At the beginning and end of every commercial break they ran an ad for Frank TV. I couldn't take it anymore. I commented on this to a friend and he suggested that I send TBS an email. So I did. This is the email that I sent on October 4th:

"I think we are all well aware that you have a new show starting soon called Frank TV. You are going to ruin the playoffs for myself, and millions of other people that are already tired of seeing a John Madden impersonation, if you continue to plug the show at the beginning and end of every commercial break.

I know that you believe that 'more is better', but when all you do is show the same guy in a costume doing an impersonation it gets to be a bit too much.

Please cut back on the Frank TV promos.

Please."

Keep in mind that the playoffs started on October 3rd. If Frank TV turns out to be horrible, you heard it here first.

What do you think?

Jerry Crasnick has a cool article on ESPN.com discussing the set-up of MLB playoffs. I like the way that the playoffs in baseball are set up. The season is long, and I like that the playoffs - in relation to say the NBA or NHL which have 16 teams - are short. However, I've never known a different system. I'd like to know what people think who have seen MLB playoffs before and after realignment.

Gives me a headache...

All of the possible baseball scenarios are CRAZY! I can hardly follow all of the possible scenarios with only 1 game left. Here is a good NL link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21054345/

I'm not quite sure they have it all covered. AL is playing for home field, also important, but far less confusing (head-to-head records).

It's gonna be a crazy day.