Baseball ⚾️ Playoff Preview

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To this day the best playoff season ever happened way back in 1986.

The Angels had a 3-1 lead on the Red Sox in the American League championship series and the Sox came back to win. The reliever who blew it for the Angels actually committed suicide a few years later.

In the National League the Astros-Mets series was the most entertaining series I’ve ever seen that didn’t involve the Yankees. I was working with Kevin Bass’ Dad on the job in San Jose.

Kevin Bass was an outfielder for the Astros. I was rooting hard for Kevin’s Dad.

And then the World Series was epic. I am not a fan of either the Mets or Red Sox but man. That was one for the ages and I was rooting for Boston!

Tells you how much I hated that Mets team.

This year, the playoffs may be even better. There are 4 games today - the wild card round - the Yankees have time off because they earned a bye.

I see it this way:

Cleveland over Tampa.
Seattle over Toronto (upset)
Cardinals over Phillies 
Padres over Mets (upset)

So round two:

Astros over Seattle
Yankees over Cleveland
Braves over Cardinals
Dodgers over Padres

Which takes us to the championship series:

Braves over Dodgers
Yankees over Astros

Which leads us to the World Series:

Yankees versus Braves.

We will talk about that as we get closer.

A lot can happen in a couple of weeks.

This year has the chance to upend 1986.

Best part?

The Red Sux aren’t involved.

They finished in the basement!

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