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“It’s Time”, meet “It’s Over.”
With an 11-4 thumping of the Detroit Tigers last night – combined with the Oakland A’s loss in Kansas City – the Texas Rangers won their first American League West division championship since 1999.
I know the magic number is 10 and there are still 18 games remaining, so you can’t quite yet put that little x by the Rangers in the standings indicated a clinch.
But with a nine-game lead, the Rangers could go – yep – 9-9 the final 2 1/2 weeks and Oakland would have to go – yep – 18-0 just to force a one-game playoff.
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Chill the champagne. Or, what the hell, we’ve been waiting long enough. Let’s go ahead and pop it.
A collapse at this point would rank amongst the all-timers: The 2007 Mets blowing a seven-game lead on September 13 by losing 15 of their last 17; and the ’64 Philliest losing a 6.5-game lead with 12 to go by dropping their last 10 games.
As a guy who in spring training back in Surprise, Arizona in March picked this team to win 92 games and the division, I’m not surprised. But I am on the verge of being really happy.
