It’s a damn shame that the most interesting League Championship Series in years doesn’t matter. There’s nothing more fun than teams who have struggled for as long as the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals in a position to win it all.
But they won’t. It’s just going to be another St. Louis Cardinals or San Francisco Giants World Series. And that sucks.
For the hundredth time in the past 10 years, the National League is down to San Francisco and St. Louis, cities named for holy men whose reputations have been so sorely maligned by teams no one wants to watch anymore, that their canonization is in danger of being revoked.
It happens every year. We spend 162 games talking about how awesome Clayton Kershaw is pitching, how fun it is to watch Andrew McCutchen play, and that the Washington Nationals are definitely good enough to win it all. Those names and teams can switch out with others depending on what went on in each particular year. But what transpires after that is always the same.
The Giants and the Cardinals beat them all. It’s the dumbest thing.
It never matters that they aren’t better than any of these teams. I mean, the Giants couldn’t even win their division. There’s no reason to have any Cardinal’s jersey; none of them are cool.
During the second NLCS contest, the 49ers will be embarrassing the Rams in a bad Monday Night Football game. You could probably illegally stream a preseason NBA game. Your wall looks pretty interesting right now. There are so many other ways to bide your time than watching this garbage series. You’d have to be a psychopath to watch the NLCS.
I don’t want Buster Posey to hit another double. I don’t want to watch Tony LaRussa (I know he changed his name to Mike Matheny) sit in the dugout and not have lips. I don’t want to watch Tim Lincecum fling another fastball through his thick, hemp-induced haze. I don’t want to watch the NLCS. I already saw it. It wasn’t even that great the first time. Or the other billion times.
When’s basketball season?
Ian Ording is the BedPost columnist and Copy Chief at The Post. Email him at io312410@ohio.edu or tweet him @IanOrding.
