October=Great Month of Sports

It's officially October, and with that comes cool weather, the leaves changing color and some very good sports.  October has the MLB playoffs, and weeks 5-8 of the NFL.  While the NFL will play on until February, I always felt that weeks 5-8 are when the action really picks up.  Teams have four games under their belts by now, and the rust has essentially been shaken off.  By week 5 division leaders have begun to emerge and we can start to see what teams are going to be forces in week 16 and what teams are going to be done by week 10.

However, as great as football is in October, the main stories will come from baseball.  Tonight was the first day of the divisional series and already there has been one upset, with the NL best Cubs losing to the red hot Dodgers.  In the other games the Phillies beat the Brewers and the Red Sox are currently beating the Angels who they have owned in the post season.  Not only are there great series to be played, there are great story lines.

In the National League you have the Cubs, who haven't won the World Series in 100 years, and then in the A.L there are the Tampa Bay Rays who not only had their best season in the franchises history, but won the A.L East and are in the playoffs for the first time ever in the teams history.  With all of that happening how can you not be excited for a great post season, which regardless of the story lines never ceases to be great.  Combine that with four weeks of hard hitting football and you have one great month of sports.  Plus my birthday falling on the 17th doesn't hurt either.  And Halloween too.