Who holds back the electric car?
Who made David Eckstein…a star?

We do!  We do!

My father… never liked you.

Those of us with busy schedules usually prefer reading your scribblings literate, concise summaries, Craig.  I work in a West Coast law office and have two young kids, so I don’t get to watch much baseball.

Besides, I grew up listening to Vin Scully.  What am I going to hear from Chip Caray’s lips that I haven’t heard spoken more elegantly and mellifluously by Scully?

Typos aside, Craig, this isn’t the Blue Network, we can multi-task.

“The Yankees have 26 world championships,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman says. “If we had played all of those years with divisions and wild cards, we would not have 26 world championships.”

Interesting that Cashman includes the 2000 WS.  Without the three-division structure, the Yankees would have been eliminated with a week to play.  FWIW, they wouldn’t have made the postseason in 1977 either.

2005 White Sox?

I have to go with the NL because that’s just how I do.  Probably the winner of the Dodgers-Cardinals series. I think I’m slightly favoring the Cards in this one (rooting-wise; I think they’ll win the series 3-1).  I’ll say, however, that it will only take one La Russa moment for me to switch sides.

In yet another example when a father should have demanded genetic testing (I’m once again avoiding politics), Chip Caray clearly didn’t inherit his father’s talent.  I could listen to Skip and Don Sutton (or the equally entertaining, informative team of Richie Ashburn and Harry Kalas) read the phone book.  If I think about it, Skip and Don may have actually read the phone book during a blowout. 
Now, I have to watch the games without sound.
I am totally mystified by the networks’ choices of announcers. Terrible is an understatement.

@tadthebad
The best series in the first round may be BOS-LAA.  Thanks for the tip….At least I’ll start with sound audible.
People thought Philip Nolan had it tough.  I’m a National League fan without a team.  It’s much worse.

This is in reference to the “Are the playoffs fair?” article.  I tried putting this comment in the field, but it doesn’t appear that it posted.

Why is the wild card team the one that should have to be penalized?  Let’s be honest.  In the American League, the wild card has frequently gone to the team with the second or third best record in the league (2002 Angels, 2004 Red Sox, 2006 Tigers, 2007 Yankees, 2008 Red Sox, 2009 Red Sox come to mind).  In these circumstances, you’d be penalizing a team because of the division they play in, not the quality of the team. 

I propose abolishing the division format and unbalanced schedule formats entirely( like pre-1969), while keeping the leagues separate (with the exception to interleague play).  Each team would play 18 interleague games, and a balanced league schedule.  At the end of the season, the top four teams in each league would receive postseason births.  The teams with the best record in each round would have home field advantage (including the World Series).  This would balance schedule difficulties (especially for teams like Baltimore, Toronto, and Tampa whom have to pay 38 games against the Yankees and Red Sox every year), and potentially neutralize a big market team’s ability to get to the playoffs by dominating a weak division.