Baseball Postseason Postmortum

Out with the old baseball legends and in with the new. Well, now that the 2007 Major League Baseball season is over, we have to wonder why there hasn't been a repeat World Champion since 2000's New York Yankees, and why in four of the last five years the home team has not won the deciding game of a World Series. It's rather a sorry sight to see the opponents jump for joy on another's baseball diamond with no sound of jubilee. I kind of saw this coming, which is why I did not see even one minute of the Fox Network's 2007 World Series coverage.

In any event, there is one single, logical answer to the two questions I posed...the youth of the world. The days of Willie Mays, Reggie Jackson, and so on have gone into the sunset, and new faces too numerous to mention in today's gripe are coming in, all wanting to emulate those legends of the past. Of course, they are all far from being, say, a Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson, but these are just guys fulfilling dreams of making it in the big leagues. The problem is, with every World Series champion since 2000, they find it hard to keep the chemistry going within the team to help defend their title.

Then again, making it in the big leagues also isn't easy. It takes time. Look at how hard Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants got to be the home run king with 762 biggies, surpassing Hank Aaron's previous record of 755. As we all know, that landmark was wasted as the Giants finished last in the National League Western Division.

The key to any success in any one team, and something the youth is lacking, is discipline. This is what they will need to carry on into the postseason. After all, the goal of every major league team is to touch that World Series Commissioner's Trophy. If every member of a World Series champion can apply this, maybe, just maybe, the Boston Red Sox (this year's World Champion) will have no problem defending their crown next season. It's all in the mind and heart. Will we see some future legend out of the Red Sox many years from now that the youth of tomorrow will talk about? For the answer, stay tuned to the next postseason.

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