Baseball Irony

With baseball season now officially over for 2011, I find something to be a little ironic about the ending of the past two baseball seasons. The last two champions: San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals have more in common then people may think.

Before I continue on with this point, I want to expand a little more on MLB over the last 18 years. With 2011 being the year of labor stoppage (NFL and currently NBA), I've decided to look at the American top 4 sports leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB) over this 18 year span. All of these leagues have gone on strike or lockout within the last 18 years (NBA in 1998-99 and 2011-?, NFL in 2011, NHL the whole 2004-05 and the MLB strike in1994).

My point in this blog is to show that MLB has somewhat made a comeback into American lives again as it did pre-1994. This year's World Series may go down as one of the greatest of all-time and 2011 could be the rebirth of MLB as we once knew it. With the NFL and NBA lockouts of 2011, MLB had the opportunity to re-assert itself as the "American Pastime". Some could argue in the future this year's postseason may have saved the sport, considering that the last 5 postseasons weren't as great. Which leads me to my main point, a few years ago baseball was the laughing stock of all sports in America. From Commissioner Selig being pretty much bullied in his own sport, to the Rodger Clemmons HGH case, and Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's alleged doping issues.

Now I've gotten back to my earlier point I was making by naming Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa. We'll take Sosa out of this for the time being. What are the connections between Bonds and McGwire, outside of their HR chase and doping allegations? You guessed it, how ironic that both of their former teams are the last two World Series Champions.

For St. Louis and San Francisco, their fans we're most effected by the aforementioned events and to see that both organizations have succeeded after this is a sign to MLB that baseball may not be as dead as people made it out to be a few years ago. Even though, Bonds and McGwire may or may not get into Baseball's Hall of Fame, but for the two organizations that they've played for its safe to say that they have "moved on" and Baseball as a sport as moved up into the top 3 of American sports after this postseason.

So as for the Chicago Cubs, the Sosa mentioning earlier, if this all holds up the way that's has, 2012 could FINALLY be your year.........Huh Huh??

Only Time Will Tell...........if the Giants, Cardinals and MLB recovered, then why not the Cubs!!!