MLB Post Season Blahs

The first round of  the MLB playoffs, the Divisional Series, is over and the results leave me uninspired.  The clock has struck twelve and all the Cinderellas have gone home.

Outcome-wise, the highlight was the Baltimore Orioles knocking off the Texas Rangers in the new-fangled AL Wildcard Elimination game.  But in the NL version, the Atlanta Braves choked and threw the game away, losing to the St. Louis Cardinals in a contest to be long-remembered for an outfield umpire making an inappropriate infield fly rule call.

The four Divisional Series all went the five-game limit.  There were good games and great plays and drama and walk-offs and comebacks, but for my tastes, they all worked out the wrong way.  Cinderella Oakland lost to the big-budget Detroit Tigers.  Cinderella Baltimore went down to the even-bigger-budget New York Yankees. 

The Washington Nationals won the most regular season games of any team, but they're a Cinderella too -- an orphan franchise, the remnants of the old Montreal Expos, and the D.C. team, where they haven't seen a winner since the Hoover administration.  The Nats were beaten by the Cards in agonizing fashion, blowing Game 5 after leading 6-0.

Worst of all, the Cincinnati Reds were defeated by the San Francisco Giants.  The Reds won the first two in Frisco, then came home and lost three straight.  Ugghh!

So I'm left without a compelling rooting interest for the League Championship round.  The Giants vs. the Cards in the NL is a matchup of the last two World Series winners.  The ALCS offers Yanks vs. Tigers a battle of two fat-cat perennial powers.

I'm consumed by indifference.  Can they all lose?