RED SOX ARE IN!!!
Don's not here, but I'm sure he's excited by this news. The season's over, and playoff berths are set. Boston split it's final series against the Yankees to battle them to a tie for the Eastern Division (although for various reasons, the Yanks go into the record books with the title). They'll face off against Chicago in the first game of the playoffs on Tuesday (and somebody on this blog has tickets).

And congrats to the Braves, too, who have their followers here. Sitting atop a weak National League division, they knew they were headed to the playoffs several days ago. And from here on in, it's only the playoffs that matter. The fact that the Braves ended their season with a record five games behind the Red Sox is completely irrelevant now.