NY Observer > San Diego Padres http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/29395/feed Articles from Observer.com en Why the Baseball Standings Suck http://www.observer.com/node/33510 Something's wrong with the baseball standings in the papers and online.

No one's interested in reading the classic divisional standings; we know who won now, only two out of six races are in play, Detroit vs Minnesota in the AL Central, and LA vs San Diego in the NL West. Baseball fans are interested in the Wild Card standings, but when you click on these, you see Minnesota way ahead of Chicago in the AL and Philly edging ahead of LA in the NL. These are false standings; they leave out San Diego and Detroit, which are actually in contention for the Wild Card.

Someone should come up with a better way of presenting the standings, as an Expanded Wild Card, where a division leader is included with an asterisk, or it says: Top Two Finishers Go Through to Playoffs. As it is, the papers are just wasting space.]]> http://www.observer.com/node/33510#comments Detroit Tigers Minnesota Minnesota Twins San Diego Padres Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:46:28 -0400 Observer Staff 33510 at http://www.observer.com Times Pitches for Red Sox http://www.observer.com/2001/times-pitches-red-sox The New York Times wants a piece of the Boston Red Sox, and talk about a strange romance.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/2001/times-pitches-red-sox#comments Sports Boston Bruins New York Mets New York Yankees San Diego Padres Sun, 09 Dec 2001 19:00:00 -0500 Sridhar Pappu and Jason Gay 45345 at http://www.observer.com We Need Our Yanks, Now More Than Ever http://www.observer.com/node/45179 It's wrong, I know,to pray for a baseball team to win. It's selfish, too, given all that  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/45179#comments Sports Joe Torre New York Mets New York Yankees San Diego Padres Sun, 04 Nov 2001 19:00:00 -0500 Mary Ann Giordano 45179 at http://www.observer.com