PFP! PFP! PFP!

The 2006 World Series is over, and it couldn't have come a minute too soon. At the start, I was hoping that it would go 7 games. Buy the start of last night's game, I needed it to end. I haven't seen a team play so poorly and do everything possible to hand victory to their opponents since Neil O'Donnell threw 3 TD passes to Cowboys corner backs in the 1995 Super Bowl. If I remember right from last night's stats, the Detroit Tigers were the first team since 1930 to commit at least one error in 5 straight World Series games. Six errors in all--4 by the pitching staff and 2 from Brandon Inge on the same play (and they could've stuck him with 3 on that play). Twice, on comebackers to the pitcher, the ball was thrown into the bullpen trying to get the runner at third rather than make the smart play (Zumaya to second, Verlander to first). What's disappointing about the World Series this year is that it was a horribly anticlimatic end to a very entertaining season. The idea that these were the representatives for the year is really sad. I have to believe that the Twins would have taken the Cardinals in 5 games. Not because I'm a homer, but Minnesota wouldn't make the same fundamental mistakes that Detroit did. St. Louis didn't win because they outhit or even outplayed the Tigers, they just played the way that any smart D-League softball team does--hit the ball on the ground and make the other team throw it around. If the Twins are there in place of the Tigers, the unearned runs never happen. Oh well. I'm just happy it's over.