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With the miraculous comeback of the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night to take home the AL Central crown, another dubious streak was continued: the inclusion of at least one dome in the MLB Playoffs.
SInce 1997, at least one domed team has made October baseball, with each experiencing varying success.
Here is a look back at those teams that decided that playing under a steel-grey roof was better than a starry night ...
Drama in The Dome: Twins Take Home Central Crown In Extras
Posted: 6th October 2009 by Justin Hall in MLB
After 162 games, it was only fitting that the 163rd needed extra innings to decide the AL Central champion.á
In a game full of bloopers, bombs, diving plays, headfirst slides and power strikeouts, it was a solid RBI single by Alexi Casilla that gave the Twins a 6-5 win and a date with October baseball.
What was supposed to be a swansong for the Metrodome turned into a classic back and forth ...
Detroit Tigers-Minnesota Twins: A Good Ol’ Fashioned Pennant Race
Posted: 6th October 2009 by Justin Hall in MLB
In a season where all the drama seems to have been sucked out baseball, its nice to see an old school pennant race break out in the AL Central this past week.
For the entire season, it looked like the Detroit Tigers were going to roll to their first division title in 22 years.á
They had a seven game lead over the Minnesota Twins exactly one month ago and were up by ...
NFL Football: Get Off the Couch and Go to the Stadium!
Posted: 16th September 2009 by Justin Hall in NFL
The hoarse throat at screaming for your team to score a game-winning touchdown.
The tears of joy seeing your heroes come back for one more lap of glory.
The goosebumps at seeing F-18 jets fly only hundreds of feet above your heads.
Oh, and winning the game was just the icing on the cake.
These are the emotions I felt when I attended the Patriots-Bills game this Monday night at Gillette Stadium.
They are also ...
With parity being the name of the NFL's game in the 21st century, where last year's chump can be the next season's champ, its time to give some love to one of football's perennial losers: the New Orleans Saints.
Yes, those 'Aints.
The ones who went 13 years before recording their first winning season.
The ones who had fans show up with bags over their head in shame.
The ones who didn't win ...
They say you can never have too much of a good thing. However, since 1995, there has been one too many teams entering the MLB playoffs, ruining what was once the greatest month in sports.
Baseball has always been the best sport when it comes to their postseason, only allowing pennant winners until the 1960s, division champions until the mid '90s and even today, giving only four teams in each league ...