OK, so maybe it's a bit premature still to be assuming it'll be the Giants vs the Rangers for the 2010 Major League Baseball championship, but things are definitely leaning that way at the moment. SF has a 3-1 stranglehold on their best-of-7 National League Championship Series against the Phillies and can advance to the World Series with a home win tonight, while the surprising team from Texas is up 3-2 on "the stinking Yankees" (as Boneman calls them), with both remaining games in that series (if two are necessary) set for Arlington over the weekend.
Prior to this postseason, Texas had never even won a playoff series. The Giants, along the same lines, are still awaiting their first championship banner after relocating from New York more than 50 years ago. In other words, these are not perennial favourites by any stretch. The two teams they may end up knocking out, on the other hand, are: New York won it all last year, and Philadelphia took home the trophy in 2008! So it would be quite the shocker if those two end up coming so close, and yet so far...
Oh, and I can't believe I've gone this far into the current ALCS matchup without mentioning that it's the "New York/Rangers" series... Well, it is!
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