The Yankees season has been over six days ago. I am still bitter about it.

What I find funny during the post season in baseball is that there would (always) be some form of hit or sensation. It might come in the form of a chant, an action (the Milwaukee Brewers "monsters"), a rally monkey (Anaheim Angels, 2002) and of course, a rally squirrel courtesy of the St Louis Cardinals, in addition to a tortoise owned by utility man Allen Craig.

If you have been following the post season, you would have seen the famous video clip when Roy Oswalt from the Phillies was throwing a pitch to the Cardinals in game four, a squirrel ran by right infront of him, and the umpire called it a ball. Oswalt protested in vain, to re-do the pitch but it failed.

Well ohh well. The Brewers and Cardinals are tied up at one game apiece and there will be a game five for sure. Same goes for the Rangers and Tigers series, with banged up Detroit winning in game 3 to cut the defict to 1-2, instead of going down 0-3.

I'm sure nobody saw it coming last week in game five of the epic win St Louis pulled off in Philadelphia. Strangely enough I did tell a friend after the Yankees ended their season how amazing and nice it would be to have the Phillies going home for the winter in game five like the Yankees. The team that won the most number of games this season in the Majors and with the second highest payroll. (Yankees top the list this season, no surprise, followed by the Phillies and Red Sox). Roy Halladay vs Chris Carpenter. Two former star pitchers for the Toronto Blue Jays who will be duking it out in a winner take all game.

Halladay made one mistake in an otherwise superb effort, but Carpenter gave up only three hits and threw a complete game shutout. Cardinals won and advanced, leaving the fans in Citizens Bank Park shocked and too stunned to boo as they filed for the exits after the last out, where Ryan Howard injured his achillies and could not even jog to first base.

Hey, at least we lasted five more games than the Red Sox.

Coincidentally, both the Yankees and Phillies ended their past two post seasons in game 6, and with the same player for each team recording the final out- ARod striking out last year in Texas and this year vs Detroit, Ryan Howard striking out in San Francisco's AT and T park, and this year hitting a routine groundball to first/shortstop thanks to the powerful pitching arm of Chris Carpenter. The sad thing is, he would not be seen on a field till June next year I believe.

Since my Yankees are out, the team I'd like to see win the World Series this year would be the Texas Rangers. Josh Hamilton deserves that ring so badly. Former drug abuser and alcoholic, the dude has came so far to be where he's at right now. Sheer determination and perserverance. He's my role model, a guy who battled real hard. I keep telling myself to stop quitting and keep on going but end up coming apart and screwing myself up even further. Somehow, someday I need to wake up. Hamilton is the perfect example of  a winner.