It’s over! Finally, the long playoff drought for the JimmyJam Slammers is over.
After winning a second straight World Series title in 2012, it has been a long five years of missing the playoffs with winning records and losing records.
And it all came on a Sunday to remember in fantasy baseball. The ups and downs of the night during the Astros-Angels game was rather insane.
I couldn't take my eyes off the game and the standings.
Somehow, when all was said and done, I avoided the letdown of 2017.
Last year, after an insane Week 20 rally to jump into playoff position, the Cheese Steaks destroyed me to end my playoff dreams.
He almost did it again.
This time, in Week 19, he handed me a huge loss.
At the time, the 15-6-1 loss was just a “who cares” loss for me. I was gearing up for the playoffs.
Or was I.
Quad Eh. What can we say? At the trade deadline, we thought he was gearing up for 2019. Instead, his pitching has been insanely stellar and it helped him pick up a 15-4-3 win over me.
All of a sudden, I only have a half-game lead over Quad Eh.
No big deal, right? I can hold him off, can’t I?
The answer is barely. With a 13-7-2 win, I will edge him in the standings by 1.5 games.
The even crazier part of this is that at 10 p.m., Quad EH and I leapfrogged second-place Lebowski and sent him into fantasy hockey mode.
The final winning percentages at that point were: .506, .505 and .504.
But then Monkey started coming back against Quad Eh. A Carlos Correa RBI put Quad Eh and Dude in a dead tie at .50433 percent. Quad Eh still had the tie-breaker, but he had to hope that Correa or Mike Trout didn’t get an RBI.
He dodged a bases-loaded bullet when Trout just blooped out to shortstop, but then it became clear that the real danger was Robert Osuna coming in to get the save.
And he did just that, booting Quad Eh out of the playoffs by a half-game.
Within those three outs to record the save was a groundout by Andrelton Simmons.
The Sex Panthers needed a walk in the worst way there, and without it, she too missed the playoffs by a half-game.
She, too, was slated to go to the playoffs at about 9 p.m. All was good, even after George Springer hit a home run.
Crox went into the evening needed two of the following three things: a homer, a double and a SAC.
Once he got the homer, he absolutely needed the double or another homer to win it.
In George’s next at-bat, he crushed it and it fell just short of a homer, and he pulled in at second base with a double.
The craziest part of this is, Springer hesitated out of the box because he thought it was a homer. If he had run out of the gates, he would have made it to third with a triple, and the Sex Panthers would be in the playoffs.
It was that close.
Now, we have rematches right away in the divisional series as the Gamblers take on the Crox Sox in the ALDS and the Slammers take on the Dude in the NLDS.
Big Country and Philly Cheese do what they’ve been doing since July — wait to see who they’ll face in the League Championship series. They knew then that this would be the case, so now for them, it’s just one more week of watching.
But will any of it equal the Sunday night we just had?
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