MLB Playoffs and NFL Quick Hits

Autumn. It's that time of year when Sam Adams Oktoberfest comes back to bars and liquor stores near you and when you have to get the damn leaves off of your lawn.

Yes folks, it's October.

At this time of year the MLB Playoffs begin and the NFL regular season is 4 games in and in full swing. October also seems like a perfect time for another Tom Ace blog post.

Baseball and I have been estranged for most of this year as my beloved NY Mets tweaked, tore, and strained themselves to a woeful 70-92 record for the season. The rag tag Mets, led by players like Jeff "Frenchy" Francouer and Luis "Look I Can Play Alright Sometimes" Castillo, just could not overcome the injury after injury to the teams core star players. During one stretch this year none of Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, or David Wright were in the NY lineup.

Although upset, I can't really get down too much on the team. You take away the 4 best everyday players on ANY team and they are bound to struggle. And struggle the Mets did. Tons. Once again Mets fans look to next season in hopes of another championship. Note to Omar: we need a LF, a power 1B bat, and a #2 pitcher (Carl Crawford, Hank Blaylock, and John Lackey would be my choices).

That said, let's move on the to the teams that did not suck this season.

The current champs the Philly Philthies play the hottest team coming into the playoffs for the National League, the Colorado Rockies. I place great faith in momentum, and just can't trust the leaky Philadelphia pen. I give this series to the Rox in 4. Oh yeah, plus I f-ing hate the Phillies.

Staying in the National League (where there is no DH aka Real Baseball), the LA Dodgers play the St. Louis Cardinals. The Dodgers limped into October and the Cards have really good pitching. That being said, it's tough to overcome errors like the one Matt Holliday made last night with 2 out in the ninth -- shades of Daniel Murphy if you will. I still like the Cardinals to take this one, especially since all the Yankee fans still have a woody for Joe Torre. I thought the Cards would take this in 4 but I guess let's call it 5 instead.

Moving to the American League, the Sawx play the Halos. Boston has tons of mojo in this series, beating the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in their past 3 meetings in the postseason. That didn't help yesterday as Boston's Grungiest got shutout by pitcher John Lackey (Omar, sign this man!) and the Angels, 5-Love. I still got the Sox in 5.

The Minnesota Twin-kies play the hated New York Spankees in the other ALDS. New York fields a veritable pseduo All Star team led by the Captain of Intagibles and butt plugs, Derek Jeter. I personally like the frisky Twins and usually keep them as my fallback team on sad Mets seasons like this one. Nevertheless, I think Cy Young and Weight Watchers candidate CC Sabathia and the rest of the Yanks rotation will be too tough to overcome. I got the best team blood money can buy winning in 5.

With that, the ALCS will be another hyped up Boston - New York showdown. The media will be all over this and the public will just be glad to read stories not about Brett Favre. I look for Red Sawk traitor Johhny "I Once was a Caveman" Damon and Alex "Bitch Tits" Rodrigay to come up big in this series and help the Stanks take it in 6. Boston will breathe a collective groan and see if they can start a program to get Big Papi back on the juice.

The Cards and Rox will meet in the NL Championship Series and call me crazy but I also like Colorado in this matchup. They don't call it Rocktober for no reason. They just have "the look" -- in my eyes anyway. Hopefully Holliday makes a couple more ultra-costly errors for his former squad to help out my prediction. Rockies take the series at home in game 6.

And in the fall classic, the momentum driven Rockies will play the steroid injected Yankees. I like the mid-season switch from Clint Hurdle to current manager Jim Tracy and see it being similar to the Marlins' switch to Jack McKeon during their WS Championship year. The Rockies will rule Rocktober and crush the hearts of Yankee fans with their game 7 win (Hopefully! Please?!). All the Yankee faithful in attendance will sit in silence as the upstart Rockies celebrate their 2009 championship on the field of The New Yankee Stadium. You know, kinda like when the Diamondbacks did it in 2001. It will happen and it will be glorious.

I was going to write about the NFL too but this shit is getting long.

Still... Go J E T S !