radio@spuxll.UUCP (Rick Farina) (07/30/85)
As we enter the final week of the 1985 baseball season, we find that virtually all races have been locked up. This is due to surges last week by several pretenders (Toronto, St Louis, Los Angeles) combined with collapses by several contenders (both New York teams, San Diego). The execption is in the AL Worst, where Kansas City is making their annual end-of-the-season drive (at least THEY know which way the wind is blowing), threatening to overtaking slumping California. Nevertheless, it looks like, once again, there will be no repeaters among the division champions. In fact, you have to look at the standings a pretty long time to find some of last year's winners (ain't that right, Dallas?). Most races should be locked up by the middle of the week. The AL East is already history. On August 5, the players will go through the motions, then pack their bags and head home. The wiser ones will simply live, quite well thank you, off their interest money. The owners will go back to their pizza empires or their beer empires or their publishing empires. They also will not starve. Only we fans will go hungry. raf ------