It occurred to me today that the Giants, who will shortly attempt to win their first World Series title since moving to San Francisco in the 1950s, have something in common with the NHL's Flyers of 2010: both teams are playing for the championship after making the postseason on the final day of the regular season!
In the Flyers' case, they won a last-second shootout last April (against my hapless Rangers), catapulting them into the first of four rounds of playoffs before finally falling to the Black Hawks. For the Giants, they needed a win against Western Division rivals San Diego Padres in their 162nd game to avoid facing a tie-breaker scenario in order to make the postseason.
Put another way: fans of both teams went into the close of the season facing the very real possibility that each franchise might miss the playoffs entirely this year, only to both avoid disaster and eventually vie for the ultimate prize. Talk about a dramatic turnaround!
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