Pastime reigns amid the start of the NFL
John Burns
Issue date: 9/12/06 Section: Sports
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Before diving into sports rhetoric that will surely prove biased and ill-informed, let me begin by notifying those who read this column that they will be joining me in my first and last extra curricular activity at Loyola. Now let us explore the widewide world of sports.
With football season knocking at our doors, many people across the nation are anxiously waiting for America's new favorite pastime to get back into the swing of things, dominating Sunday and Monday night ratings and luring people into a world of fried food and cold beer.
Though as pumped as I am for another Jets losing season, I'm not willing to trade in my pinstriped number 51 jersey for my green number 28 just yet.
Keeping the beer in hand, but substituting the Buffalo wings for a few hotdogs, I could not be more excited for the next few weeks of America's real favorite pastime. From the end of the regular season all the way through the playoffs, I will be tuning in to the voice of John Sterling.
As much as I would like to dedicate this article to the impending 27th championship of the New York Yankees with a victory over the New York Mets (which I will in a few weeks), I probably should hold off on the predictions before the teams actually make the playoffs. Though they are both the favorites out of their respected leagues (sorry Tigers but your play against playoff caliber teams this year has been well below par) their equally suspect pitching and undetermined playoff foes constitutes as much reason to hold off their coronation.
This unprecedented doubt towards the Yankees and Mets series comes from the excitement that surrounds the entire league and the cities across the nation. With six teams having legitimate chances to still make the playoffs, and a few others still in the hunt, it is still too tough to make a call on who will be playing baseball in October.
These division and wild card races that seem to be coming down to the wire give Major League Baseball an extra kick entering the playoffs. For such teams as the defending champion White Sox, Twins, Padres, Phillies, Marlins and even division leading Tigers and Dodgers, every game in the next few weeks is a playoff game. How much more exciting does it get?
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