Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

<rant>Baseball now moves into the World Series. You take the pennant winners from the National and American leagues and play a best-of-seven series to see who is the best in the world.

Now, let’s see if we can ruin this. People must be trying to ruin this, because they are succeeding at that.  They are trying to turn the World Series into the Super Bowl. It isn’t the Super Bowl; it is a series between the best of the two leagues.

When a team wins a league championship in baseball, they win the pennant. They actually get a pennant or flag to fly in their ball park. That is the prize.

Recently, however, some people who want to kill the game are trying to change the names. They now call the winners the “winner of the League Championship Series” or L-C-S. I’m sorry, “L-C-S” sounds like a disease or something. Maybe it is the Last Child Syndrome or the Lowest Calorie Syndrome or something like that.

Just remember, it’s called

Winning the pennant

not

Winning the LCS.

</rant>