Quite the game last night between Japan and Korea. Why would anyone pitch to Ichiro with two outs and the opportunity to get a force out at any base? I don’t know, but the last game of the Classic was one for the ages.

Now it’s time for the AL West preview… and since I’ve been gone for a week, I’m throwing in the NL West too. Two for the price of one!

AL West

1. LA Angels
2. Texas Rangers
3. Oakland A’s
4. Seattle Mariners

NL West

1. LA Dodgers
2. Colorado Rockies
3. San Diego Padres
4. San Francisco Giants
5. Arizona Diamondbacks

And now it’s time for a little oddness…

According to MSNBC.com and the Associated Press, the manager of a pizza outlet discovered some legs hanging out of a vent above his pizza oven Monday morning, along with a voice yelling “Help Me!” The man said he’d been in the duct for five to six hours. He was arrested on suspicion of burglary. The full story is here…

My NCAA brackets are in the top 12%. I just picked them from the team’s names. Take that, so called “experts!”

NL Central coming up…