Baseball playoffs

It had been 108 years since the Cubs and White Sox have been in the baseball playoffs at the same time. After this year, if you pull for either Chicago team you had better hope they don't make it again together for another 108 years.

The Cubs, who everyone thought was the best in the National League, was vacuumed right out of the playoff in three straight games. They were 0-2 at home.

The White Sox did one better and lost three games to one - winning at least one of two at home.

The Dodgers and Phillies will make a very good National League Championship Series and I am sticking with the Dodgers.

The American League finds the upstart Tampa Bay Rays playing the Red Sox. who knocked off my choice for the World Series, the California Angels of Anaheim of Orange County or Pasadena.

I think part of the Angels' problems in the playoffs is they don't know who they are. They really have no identity.

I would really like to see Manny and the Dodgers play the Red Sox in the Series, but I think the Rays may play in their first World Series.

Right this minute, the best organization in baseball is the Red Sox. They proved this year they didn't mind taking a risk getting rid of Manny. In return, they got a player, Jason Bay, who has filled in nicely in Manny's Spot.

Comparing them with the Yankees, all the Yankees do is go out and spend more money and show little results. The Red Sox will dump an aging player, regardless of whether he still has anything left, but the Yankees keep getting older.

I think one problem the Yankees have is they think they are smarter than everyone else.
I would really love for the Rays to win the World Series because that's where George Steinbrenner lives.

I thought the Red Sox -Angels winner was going to win the World Series and now that the Red Sox are there, I will be pulling for the upstarts - the Tampa Bay Rays.

Thank goodness none of the four playoff series went five games. The rate that WTBS was showing the games every other day, the World Series could not have had two teams until November.

Turning our attention to football - the round kind, last night several of the Rocky Mount soccer players went to Wilson Fike hoping that Fike would help beat Northern Nash. It would've given the Gryphons the NEW 6 Conference lead with three games to play.

Fike squandered a 2-0 lead last night in the match and lost in double overtime to Northern Nash, 3-2.

Now when Fike comes to Rocky Mount, the shoe will be on the other foot as the Knights will be hoping the same thing happens. A Fike victory would help them out.

First things first. RMHS soccer has a home match Wednesday afternoon against SouthWest Edgecombe.

Not only will the baseball team be receiving its state championship rings Friday night, but Jacobi Jenkins will get one as well for his individual state championship in the 110 meter hurdles.

T-minus three days and counting until Northern is in our house!