World Series 2014 Is Over

Wow, was that a ‘World Series’ or what!

As we all know, the San Francisco Giants were the winners of this

year’s ‘World Series’ It was a really good series of games this year too. Not the usual with a team winning 4 in a row and it’s over.

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This year is was a little different. Both teams came in to the playoffs, not as winners but as ‘runner ups’, the wild cards. No Division winners!

How many times since the MLB has been keeping records has two wild cards teams beat all the odds and end up in the game of games, The World Series.

The Division winners at the end of the regular season in the American League were the Los Angeles Angels, with a record of 98 wins and 64 losses, the Baltimore Orioles, with a record of 96 wins and 66 losses and the Detroit Tigers with a record of 90 win and 72 losses.

The two wild card teams for the American League were the Kansas City Royals and the Oakland A’s.

As far as the National League the Division winners were the Washington Nationals with the record of 96 wins and 66 losses, then the Los Angeles Dodgers with the record of 94 wins and 68 losses, and the St Louis Cardinals with 90 wins and 72 losses.

The two wild card teams for the National League were the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants.

You had die-hard baseball fans dreaming of a Dodger vs Angels or perhaps an Oriole vs Nationals. There were also a huge number of sports fans thinking how cool would it be to have an East coast team play a West coast team, just imagine the what the TV ratings would have been.

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Unfortunately for every single division winner, they lost! More importantly, they lost BIG! The Angels and the Tigers in the American League lost 3 games straight in the very first round of the playoffs. The Orioles lost to the Royals, who were the long shot, being the wild card winner in the second round of the playoffs.

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All three division winners in the American League are done and gone!

It wasn’t much better with the National league, a little, but not by much!
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At least in the National League, it wasn’t 1, 2, 3 and done. The Nationals lost to the Giants in four games as well as the Dodgers losing to the Cardinals in four in the first round of the playoffs.

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The St Louis Cardinals actually made it to the second round of the playoff only to lose to the Giants. At least with the Cardinals it took five games for the Giants to take the win.

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So, there you have it, two wild card teams that managed to hang on and beat supposedly better teams, or least teams with better records.

Wouldn’t you have loved to know that in advance, a person can only imagine what the odds in Vegas would have been if someone had selected two wild-card
teams to go all the way to the baseball game of games ‘The World Series’.

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Of course the fallout from the division winners losing naturally was to blame in on the coaches, the managers and even the GMs. Several of whom have already been firer or moved up or down.

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Of course the baseball players are not immune from the fallout. There will be the traditionally moving around of players, some with be traded or sent back to the triple A. Some players will just be let go, especially the players who will be a ‘free agent’ but next season.

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