Playoffs? You Want to Blog About Playoffs??

I've been a bit too preoccupied searching ebay and craigslist for tickets to game 1 of the Cardinals/Padres series (Peavy vs Carpenter) to make any posts lately. For the enlightenment of anyone who lives east of Las Vegas, the Padres are a baseball team that plays in San Diego and can occasionally be seen on ESPN whenever they scroll the National League scores at the bottom of the screen. For more information on these Padres of which I speak, check out these blogs:

Gaslamp Ball
Minor League Town

I've got a difficult compromise to make between being a ticket snob and wanting to conserve funds for the Dodgers home games this weekend, as well as saving money for a potential NLCS between San Diego and Los Angeles. Maybe the best way to preserve my cash is to put the Lounge jinx on the teams. Here are my playoff predictions:

NL Divisional Series: Padres in 4 over Cardinals, Dodgers in 5 over Mets
AL Divisional Series: Yankees in 4 over Detroit, A's in 5 over Twins
NLCS: Padres in 5 over Dodgers
ALCS: Yankees in 6 over A's
World Series: Yankees in 4 over Padres (Hoffman blows save in game 1).

Well, first pitch is in 7 hours and I still don't have tickets. Hopefully, I didn't drive down here just to watch the game at a local sports bar. Then again, given the talent at the Pacific Beach Bar and Grill, it probably still would have been worth it. Wish me luck. Or better yet, send cash.