Baseball Wrap
Baseball fans “It is a wrap” when the last out is made and we have declared our World Series Champion.
If we were making a movie or motion picture and we had the scene exactly right and we felt like we had a winning shot the director would command “It’s A Wrap.”
Baseball fans we do not shut down the cameras nor do we call it “A Wrap” until the last out of The World Series.
The boys out on the farm do not quit and call it “A Wrap” until the last of the crop has been gathered and the hay is in barn at the end of the harvest season.
Ironically the harvest season on the farm and the end of a baseball season starts its shut down in the fall of the year say around mid-October. Baseballfarming and all farming calls it “A Wrap” come about the time the frost is on the pumpkin.
Many of you good fans might have lost track of just how we finalize the baseball season.
In years gone by it was a simple matter for all school boys to know and keep track of how their favorite team was faring against its stiff competition, Not today with the proliferation of team after team and division upon division competing.
How does it all end? How do we come about finding out who our new champion of baseball is going to be? There is a method to this madness.
Years past we had a hand full of teams in the American League and a few teams in the National League.
As the season progressed from those chilly days of early spring about February or March every year the glove got some good oil rubbing and the spikes were polished and new laces added and the old bat being rubbed and slicked down with a coca cola bottle rubbing.
Well! good folks if you look about the sporting news and count the teams and the banners logos you will find quite an array to pick for your favorite.
Each, both the American and National League today consists of (three separate divisions) in each league not the one composite league but (three different divisions of teams) in each league.
Count them we have the west division, the central division, and the east division now pray tell how do we know who is the League Champion?
Who wins or has won the League Pennant? Watson, it must be something like simple mathematics or maybe even nuclear science. Well it will take a Commissioner with all his wizards to do the math and determine how this thing is to be played out.
The boys out in the country figure but the figuring gets pretty complicated when some one starts this jazz talk about a wild card. Hey stud we are playing baseball not poker.
How are we going to have wrap on this baseball season? Aw-shucks lets have a play off in each league to decide who is the league Pennant Winner.
Ok Bub, with three divisions how does this playoff business iron out? Easy as pie since pie R square, we will add a wild card into the circle mix and have four teams play in a Championship Series playoff. The winner of the Championship Series will then be crowned our League Pennant Winner.
As the season draws near a close about Labor Day we start paying attention to which team in each division has the best record of wins and losses.
Since there are three divisions in the League the best record in each division is an automatic selection as a playing team going into this championship series whammer jammer.
Now let Einstein have his say and we take the very best record of all the rest of the teams in all three of the divisions and we will call that team our wild card entry to join the three division top teams.
That was simple enough huh? Yes, if you were as astute as Einstein and the Wizard of Oz, you knew all along it was a cake walk to select our fourth team or “wild card.” This gives us a balance of four teams to compete in the round robin tournament and gain our selection to be crowned the League Pennant winner.
This act is repeated in the American and the National leagues to crown their very own Pennant Winner for their league.
Now that we have our two crowned League Pennant winners we can call it a season wrap by doing a grand finale called the Baseball World Series. All Loyal fans of the American League and all loyal fans of the National League are poised to cheer and brag for their respective loyal oath leagues.
We get a winner and we have a Baseball Wrap.
Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (ret) bringing some baseball lingo and information for your enjoyment all baseball at http://www.baseballfarming.com Come visit and share baseball.
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