Unbelievable Ending

If any of these half-wit talking heads on ESPN or FSN or wherever you get your sports news ever again imply that games in September are in some way more important than those in other months, feel free to go all Elvis and shoot your television.

Had the Mets or Padres one a single game more than they did, the playoff situation would be very different.  One more game, the Padres wouldn't be heading home dejected right now.  One more game, and the Phillies and Mets would have played today instead of fate sealing the Mets' choke yesterday.

But with that said, with such an exciting season behind us and two teams tied at for the NL Wildcard after playing 162 games, how fitting is it that the one-game playoff between the Padres and Rockies was the most tense, exciting game of the season?

This last week has seemed almost like the playoffs themselves.  The National League had seven teams fighting for playoff spots, none of them decided before Friday.

If the regular season ends like this, what will our playoffs be like?