Well, despite that stupidity, quite a night of baseball.

Or not.

Stupid Nationals.

If they had been in contention, they'd have to play the makeup game with the Dodgers and give Kemp a final shot at 40/40. But nooooooo.

I feel bad for Pujols not getting a one game playoff last night as he ended with .299/99 RBI/37 HR ending his decade long streak of .300/100/30.

Watched essentially 10.5 of 12 innings in the Rays game and only saw one of their 8 runs.

I think the real story of the day is the Yankees deliberately tanking their game last night in order to screw the Red Sox.

Hey, Atlanta:

Go oh woh home! You ooh woo suck. Go oh woh home! You ooh woo suck.

You, too, Boston.

Megadittoes on that strike zone thingy.

I feel bad that the Mariners could not have played a drawn out extra inning game in which Ichiro came up 59 more times, which at a .272 clip, would have allowed him to extend his streak of 200 hit seasons.

Ok, I don't feel <i>bad</i>, especially since I'm guessing his current streak of eleven consecutive .299/99/30 seasons is just as unprecedented.

But to the extent that the arbitrary streak matters, he was awfully close to getting another chance at it and would have just needed to go 2 for 3 or 2 for 4 with an RBI.

Personally, I'm bummed for all the fans who don't get to be part of a one game playoff. I think my one experience with that was more exciting than any of the regular old playoff games I've cared about (for the most part the baseball season ended for me yesterday).

Yes, I'm also peeved that Kemp was robbed of those at bats.

Perhaps a dumb question, but how common is it for a team to not play 162 games in a season (strikes excluded)? It seems to me it wouldn't have been too hard to schedule a makeup of that lost game for today. Sure, it wouldn't have mattered in the standings, but both teams still got cheated out of a game.

And not that one cares too much in the overall scheme of things, but one must wonder how many millions of dollars this minor slippage is going to cost Pujols this off season.