I admit it. I pay attention to the American League East for the most part. In a way that makes me like most phoney baloney band-wagoning fanettes. So it is in October, after the league play is done, after I lick the wounds of a Red Sox season gone very wrong, that I realize that there is much to be admired about the senior circuit. I caught bits of yesterday's late afternoon game (and followed up with yappitry on 660 WFAN) between the Mets and the Dodgers but missed the play above so excellently captured by that wonder medium photography. The headine in the NYT reads "A Base-Running Blunder Dooms the Dodgers"...must I really cut and paste that for you as well?

What I did catch was a game of figure out the eternal question of "what to do next". In the American League you know what to do - throw the fastball and hit a home run. All brawn and no brains. The Mets and the entire league display greater subtilty. Bloops get people in who are on third having stolen their way there in two plays from first which they gained through a bunt. Pitching is slower but foxier. This is what I have missed as a regular part of life since the CBC decided that the Expos were not worth covering, thus guaranteeing their demise. They play again tonight. I wonder if it is the first series between one team wearing a colour of the other in tribute? And nice to see Delgado on a winning team lapping up the spotlight.