What am I doing?

Yeah, so it's been another month. Not much to say, I guess; kind of a problem for a blogger.

I can't wait for the end of this election season, even though the next one will begin about five minutes after the polls close.

Loved the Chilean miners story, as apparently a lot of other people did too. It reminded me of why I used to be a news junkie ... and why I no longer am one. It's just too hard to watch, due to the lack of actual news (replaced by manufactured stories).

So let's talk baseball. I'd rather do that anyway. The playoffs have been good so far this year, with several well-pitched games, including the first postseason no-hitter in 54 years. But what I really like to do is look back on the history of the game.

Joe Posnanski, one of the best sportswriters there ever was, posted some interesting thoughts on his blog about the baseball playoffs today. It's almost as if Joe wishes that college football and major league baseball would trade systems.

I don't think college football will ever change, because people have been talking about possible playoffs as long as I can remember, and I've been around for awhile. But baseball used to do it that way, before divisions and wild cards and November games. Joe wondered about the October match-ups if the teams with the best records had met in the World Series.

So, not having a lot to do for a few weeks yet, I decided to take Joe's post a step further and dig out the Strat-O-Matic game and see who would have won these series. Since 1995, all but two series ('95 and '99) would have had different teams than the real thing. I'll let the Braves' 1995 and Yankees' 1999 championships stand, and play the rest. It won't take that long to play a few best-of-seven series. And there will be a lot of different teams in this thing, including one team that hasn't won a championship in any of our lifetimes.

First up: The alternate 1996 Series between the Braves and the Cleveland Indians. The real champion Yankees didn't make it; but don't worry, they'll be around a lot.