Addicted Users Season 71 Playoff
Review
As has been
the tradition in Addicted Users, the Season 71 playoffs were a wild
affair. Each league had a surprise team
enter the playoffs as the sub .500 Cincinnati Adena won the AL North, and the
.500 Trenton Thunder took the NL East. While
the Thunder were dispatched rather quickly by Jacksonville 3-1, Cincy took down
Houston in a hard fought 3-2 battle.
With
Jacksonville still riding a wave, they handled the number one seed team out of
the desert, Tucson 3-2. In the other
half of the NL bracket, a solid Boise Demolition team took their first round
series 3-1 before bowing out to the eventual NL champion Oklahoma City
Scorpions. Oklahoma showed they were a WS
ready team with a fast 4-1 thumping of Jacksonville.
In the AL,
the Texas Tornados sat on their 110 wins during their first round bye to give
their troops enough time to recharge their batteries and heal their
bruises. And boy were they ready. A 4-1 beating of Cincinnati in the ALDS &
then a 4-0 sweep of Boston showed that the time off didn’t do them any harm and
had to give Oklahoma plenty to think about before the WS began.
Although the
Scorpions won 13 less games than Texas during the regular season, this was a
true battle of evenly matched teams. A
lesser team would have folded when Texas took a 3-1 lead but that isn’t the
type team that slicknick777 built. So, he
was not surprised that his team showed the resilience to force a game
seven. These heavyweights battled to the
end with alogman1’s mighty Tornados taking home the 1st WS hardware
since alogman took over.
Alogman1 has
now taken the AL South title in three consecutive seasons and has added an AL
Championship & WS Championship to his resume. You
can only wonder if those that suggested he join the world regret those efforts?
And now on
to Season 72 to see if alogman1 can repeat as champion or if someone can field
a team capable of making a similar march through the season and playoffs.
Good Luck
everyone!
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