Florida Agenda » baseball http://floridaagenda.com Florida Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender News and Entertainment from FloridaAgenda.com Your LGBT News Authority Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:16:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Start of the Playoffs: The End of an Era http://floridaagenda.com/2010/10/15/start-of-the-playoffs-the-end-of-an-era/ http://floridaagenda.com/2010/10/15/start-of-the-playoffs-the-end-of-an-era/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:10:02 +0000 FAdmin http://floridaagenda.com/?p=1980 By RYAN DIXON

The Divisional Series are now over and the League Championship Series are set. After sweeping the Twins, the Yankees look ready to continue their dominance against the Rangers in the American League Championship who dispatched the Rays in five games. On the heels of the second no-hitter in baseball history, The Phillies will look back to Roy Holliday to be their catalyst against the San Fran Giants in the National League. I look forward to seeing a rematch of last year’s World Series between the Yanks and Phillies. Clearly these two teams have found the winning combinations in their respective leagues, but money won’t buy the Yanks a title this year. The Phillies will win on the shoulders of Doc Holliday and the bat of Ryan Howard.

The real story, or ‘drama’ you could say, surrounding this year’s playoffs has been the pending retirement of Atlanta’s manager Bobby Cox. Cox has been the skipper of the Braves since midway through the 1990 season, leading his teams to sixteen postseason appearances, a record for any big league manager and one World Series title in 1995. Cox also has the record for the most consecutive division titles won with a streak of fourteen between 1991 and 2005.

Dare I say, Bobby Cox was the best major league manager of the last 25 years? He may not have as many rings as Joe Torre, but Cox never had a bad team, let alone a bad year. What more proof do you need but the tapes from his last game. The Giants are on their way to the National League championship series. They should be jumping for joy and smothering each other on the mound, right? What they did was stand behind the mound and clap in respect to a man as he took his last curtain call to a crowd that had known him for two damned decent seasons of baseball. As he doffed his cap to the crowd and headed back down to the clubhouse, a cap he often threw down in disgust at umpires earning him the most managerial ejections in baseball history, all you could hear was the crowd cheering his name, hoping he would come back out of the dugout one last time. The season was just picking up for the Giants, while a legacy was coming to an end just 90-feet away. See you in five years at Cooperstown, Bobby.

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