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The Playoffs for Major League Baseball are underway and there has already been some shocking moments, one of which is the exclusion of both the Atlanta Braves and the Boston Red Sox from the season’s end.\u00a0 In fact, the Red Sox have had quite a disastrous month, as they went through September 7-20 and even blew a nine and a half lead in the wild card game.\u00a0 All this despite one of the best rosters in the sport!<\/p>\n
What happened to the Red Sox<\/a>?\u00a0 Was it really the failure of Terry Jon Francona, who was apparently judged to be such a de-motivational force that he actually got fired after eight long seasons?\u00a0 Or was it Theo Epstein, who arguably made a series of bad decisions leading up to the new season?\u00a0 Then again, the problem could have been the team itself, perhaps suffering from a bit of overconfidence, as they dominated the early season but lost sight of the goal.<\/p>\n The Red Sox season will go down in history as one of the most unlikely and poorly managed finishes to a MLB<\/a> season.\u00a0 Life goes on\u00a0however and now–ironically–the talk of the sport is that the New York Yankees<\/a> could go on to win their 28th World Series title.\u00a0 The major competition this season will be the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> who currently have the best score card in the game.<\/p>\n The Phillies certainly do have some advantages going into the playoffs, including Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee, who actually chose to play with Philadelphia instead of New York.\u00a0 Do the Yankees have a chance?\u00a0 Offense wise, they are intimidating (Granderson and Cano come to mind) but honestly they haven’t been playing at championship caliber this season.\u00a0 Most fans will admit their pitching rotation is flawed.<\/p>\n Of course, anyone who really keeps track of the score should not be too surprised.\u00a0 In baseball, the team with the best record early on has gone on to win the World Series only three times–a far cry from say, the NFL<\/a>, when early favorites tend to build momentum and increase wins as the season continues.\u00a0 Why can even bad Playoff teams go on to win championships.\u00a0 Remember the White Sox<\/a> win six years ago?\u00a0 How about the Florida Marlins<\/a>?<\/p>\n Who do you think has the advantage this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Playoffs for Major League Baseball are underway and there has already been some shocking moments, one of which is the exclusion of both the Atlanta Braves and the Boston Red Sox from the season’s end.\u00a0 In fact, the Red Sox have had quite a disastrous month, as they went through September 7-20 and even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}