Baseball Fails Me Again

As per usual I got sucked into both LCS matchups this year because of the presence of a couple of intriguing underdogs. And once again, as per usual, none of the teams that I was rooting for got what they seemed to deserve. Last year I watched the Giants go to the Series, but they lost so badly, played so uninspired that I almost don't even remember it. This year it was a repeat performance, although the G-men mailed it in two series earlier than last year, saving us all the trouble of watching them do it in the finals twice in a row. Everyone in my office is walking around trying to make sense of a 162 game season that culminates in a matchup we couldn't care less about. See, this is why I stick with the NFL. With comparatively much shorter seasons, every week provides opportunity for dramatic wins/losses. Put another way, when I'm watching the Olympics I'd rather watch all of the sprint events than follow the marathon race. With the sprints I'm likely to see some close finishes, some exciting battles. My country will win some and they'll lose some. They may not win the overall gold, but there will be some memorable victories. With a marathon you've got to dedicate hours of your time waiting for the only part that really matters: the last two miles of the race to the finish line. And when your guy loses you're immediately questioning your loyalty, your patriotism, and your sanity, wondering why he ran all that way just to blow it in the end. How could something so magical, something so deeply desired by the whole country just get obliterated in such agonizing fashion? I'm a famous Non-Believer, and can't stand it when athletes thank God, but if there was a God, THIS would have been a situation where he could have intervened and willed the RIGHT team(s) to victory. Usually when I see athletes praying on TV I spew vitriol wondering how these dullards could think their God picked their team over the other; how they could be so crass as to assume God is interested in the outcome, when they get paid either way. But in this case I would have understood. The wrong teams won.