A few weeks ago, it looked like the second half of the baseball season would consist of one exciting division race and five that could resemble Secretariat at the Belmont. At the beginning of July, the leads in five divisions were 5.5, 6.5, 7, 8 and 12 games. Only the NL Central was tight and some of the second-place teams appeared headed in the wrong direction -- the Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers and Philadelphia Phillies were all starting to slump.
Nothing against a hard-fought wild-card race, but they don't write books about wild-card races.