Over the last decade there have been 14 games that weren't made up.

2011: 1
2010: 0
2009: 1
2008: 3
2007: 0
2006: 1
2005: 0
2004: 2
2003: 1
2002: 5

While I would prefer they all get played, if I only got scheduled 20 days off in the course of a 181 day season (3 of which are the All Star break), many of which are used to travel, I can understand not particularly wanting to give one of them up when it won't impact the standings (especially if the missed game is late in the season when real contortions would be needed to get the game in).

Wow, didn't realize it was that common. The advantages of living in sunny SoCal.

The big one for me was 2000.

That year the A's finished division 91-70. The Mariners were 91-71.

The A's didn't have to play the makeup to determine who won the division because regardless of outcomes both the A's and Mariners would go tot he playoffs. That is when I learned that if the division ended with a tie, but both teams would make the playoffs regardless, instead of playing a one game playoff they go to head-to-head record as a tie breaker.

So, since if Oakland won the makeup game they'd win outright, and if they they lost they'd still win because of head-to-head, they just didn't play the makeup.

I thought that was bogus (Oakland should ahve had to play the make-up and then if they lost a one-game playoff against the Mariners to set the playoffs pairings, even though this would have further exhausted the team).

(And it could have all been really screwy except the Indians lost their last game to finish 90-72. Winning that game would have given them a tie for the Wild Card as well.)

All of which, of course, was promptly forgotten in anticipation of the first Subway Series since 1956.

Perhaps it's an omen that the Judge handling the Frank McCourt bankruptcy case is named Kevin Gross.

So, if the American League wins the World Series, we'll have the following baseball trivia question:

Two teams met in the World Series. One of them won. Years later, they had an October rematch. The loser was sad, yet the winner did not win the World Series. Which are the two teams?

The Ducks and the Jazz?

No, although it wouldn't surprise me to learn that my scenario was common in basketball and hockey with all the expansion and realigning of teams.

A good start to the Series. I'm somewhat torn about which team to root for. On the one hand, the Cardinals' run is the better story, they're the National League team, and they're not from Texas.

On the other hand, the Rangers are packed with Jews.

I just wanted to share this with the baseball fans. Right before the end of the season, the Mariners unveiled their Dave Niehaus statue. It is a wonderful likeness. There is a seat to his left that a person could sit in to get their picture with the statue. It is a wonderful tribute to a man that made Seattle baseball great.