| Baseball fans "It is a wrap" when the last out is | | | | Watson, it must be something like simple |
| made and we have declared our World Series | | | | mathematics or maybe even nuclear science. Well |
| Champion. | | | | it will take a Commissioner with all his wizards to |
| If we were making a movie or motion picture and | | | | do the math and determine how this thing is to |
| we had the scene exactly right and we felt like | | | | be played out. |
| we had a winning shot the director would | | | | The boys out in the country figure but the |
| command "It's A Wrap." | | | | figuring gets pretty complicated when some one |
| Baseball fans we do not shut down the cameras | | | | starts this jazz talk about a wild card. Hey stud |
| nor do we call it "A Wrap" until the last out of | | | | we are playing baseball not poker. |
| The World Series. | | | | How are we going to have wrap on this baseball |
| The boys out on the farm do not quit and call it | | | | season? Aw-shucks lets have a play off in each |
| "A Wrap" until the last of the crop has been | | | | league to decide who is the league Pennant |
| gathered and the hay is in barn at the end of the | | | | Winner. |
| harvest season. | | | | Ok Bub, with three divisions how does this playoff |
| Ironically the harvest season on the farm and the | | | | business iron out? Easy as pie since pie R square, |
| end of a baseball season starts its shut down in | | | | we will add a wild card into the circle mix and |
| the fall of the year say around mid-October. | | | | have four teams play in a Championship Series |
| Baseballfarming and all farming calls it "A Wrap" | | | | playoff. The winner of the Championship Series |
| come about the time the frost is on the pumpkin. | | | | will then be crowned our League Pennant Winner. |
| Many of you good fans might have lost track of | | | | As the season draws near a close about Labor |
| just how we finalize the baseball season. | | | | Day we start paying attention to which team in |
| In years gone by it was a simple matter for all | | | | each division has the best record of wins and |
| school boys to know and keep track of how their | | | | losses. |
| favorite team was faring against its stiff | | | | Since there are three divisions in the League the |
| competition, Not today with the proliferation of | | | | best record in each division is an automatic |
| team after team and division upon division | | | | selection as a playing team going into this |
| competing. | | | | championship series whammer jammer. |
| How does it all end? How do we come about | | | | Now let Einstein have his say and we take the |
| finding out who our new champion of baseball is | | | | very best record of all the rest of the teams in all |
| going to be? There is a method to this madness. | | | | three of the divisions and we will call that team |
| Years past we had a hand full of teams in the | | | | our wild card entry to join the three division top |
| American League and a few teams in the National | | | | teams. |
| League. | | | | That was simple enough huh? Yes, if you were as |
| As the season progressed from those chilly days | | | | astute as Einstein and the Wizard of Oz, you |
| of early spring about February or March every | | | | knew all along it was a cake walk to select our |
| year the glove got some good oil rubbing and the | | | | fourth team or "wild card." This gives us a balance |
| spikes were polished and new laces added and | | | | of four teams to compete in the round robin |
| the old bat being rubbed and slicked down with a | | | | tournament and gain our selection to be crowned |
| coca cola bottle rubbing. | | | | the League Pennant winner. |
| Well! good folks if you look about the sporting | | | | This act is repeated in the American and the |
| news and count the teams and the banners logos | | | | National leagues to crown their very own Pennant |
| you will find quite an array to pick for your | | | | Winner for their league. |
| favorite. | | | | Now that we have our two crowned League |
| Each, both the American and National League | | | | Pennant winners we can call it a season wrap by |
| today consists of (three separate divisions) in | | | | doing a grand finale called the Baseball World |
| each league not the one composite league but | | | | Series. All Loyal fans of the American League and |
| (three different divisions of teams) in each league. | | | | all loyal fans of the National League are poised to |
| Count them we have the west division, the | | | | cheer and brag for their respective loyal oath |
| central division, and the east division now pray tell | | | | leagues. |
| how do we know who is the League Champion? | | | | We get a winner and we have a Baseball Wrap. |
| Who wins or has won the League Pennant? | | | | |