Baseball

I've been making mention of how the Texas Rangers have already gotten further in the playoffs then they ever have before. The Rangers were originally the Washington Senators, in 1961. They became the Rangers in 1972 when they moved to Arlington. Throughout their 50 years history they had only won one playoff game in 3 playoff series before this year. Now the Rangers are one game away from their first AL Pennant. Only 3 teams (out of 30) at the moment have never won a pennant. They are the Rangers, the Seattle Mariners, and the Washington Nationals (who used to be the Montreal Expos).

On the other side we have the San Fransisco Giants who have not won a world series since 1954 back when they were the New York Giants. They are also one game away from a pennant. Granted they have been to the world series since then, but if these two teams get to the World Series. We will be guaranteed a new champion or a champion that hasn't won since Eisenhower was the president.

In fact looking online I was surprised to find out that even though only 8 (out of 30) teams get into the playoffs, only five teams haven't been in the playoffs in the last 10 years. In fact all but 7 have been in the playoffs in the last 5 years.

This wouldn't be surprising in the NHL or NBA were more then half the teams get in the playoffs. (16 out of 30 teams for both leagues.)In fact their longest droughts are 9 years for the NHL and 6 years for the NBA.

Well let me wrap up this long post by saying good luck to the Rangers and Giants.

IF you are interested here is the list of baseballs various playoff droughts.