The Game is not over, not even when the fat lady sings...

I am not really a sports fanatatic, but it is a very important part of popular culture, around the world, and I am a fan of popular culture. So I note, with some regret the loss that the Clevleand Indians had at Fenway Park last night. On the other hand, the Boston Red Sox played a great game and deserve to go to the World Series and I will watch and hope that the bring home the chanmpionship this year.

By the way... the first Offical World Series winners were the from Boston, (the Patriots later to be known as the Red Sox) in 1903 when the beat the Pittsburg Pirates. A series of exhibiton games were played in 1882 and 1883 between the winners of the American Association and the National Leagues. Championship games were offically played after that until a World Series was offically recognized in 1903. (The Yankees have the most World Series wins though the Pirates have beat them more often when they have played in the World Series together).

Now the important thing in all of this is that Americans are a very competitive people, and we seem to have a need to have a champion of something. There are many important spins offs of this which I won't go into here, you can bet on that! Baseball's champion for 2007 hasn't been recognized yet but we are torn up over something called the BCS (Bowl Championship Series) for college football. Started in 1998 to determine who the National Champion in College Football would be, (we seemed to exist well enought for 100 years without knowing). Well now we can know except that there seems to have been some controversy about how the ratings are determined and who should play in what bowl ever since the computer based system was set up by six major college conferences, leaving out some good non-conference teams.

...and the bottom line to all this rambling, Americans are a very competitive people who like games and try to live by the rules!