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Popping the cork too soon?

Yesterday was an exciting day for professional baseball. Two teams won their divisional series to advance to the next round of the playoffs. The Mets swept the Dodgers in three games using a pitching staff that people doubted could get the job done. The Tigers came back from a game down to win their best of five series after winning their last three games against the mighty Yankees. It was a fun day for a fan too, as we got to see back-to-back clinchers. Good stuff.

We were also able to see a glimpse of the celebrations the teams were having. Champagne was being sprayed and poured on people as if they were kids having a water fight in mid-July. This is a standard practice in baseball though as you now see players prepared by wearing goggles or protective glasses in order to save their eyes from the burning. Not a bad idea to be honest. It still leads me to the thought of, “Is it too early for all of this?”

I’ll focus on the Detroit celebration only because we were shown more images of it since they won earlier in the day. It just seemed a little, I dunno, too much. Before you naysayers and Tiger fans call me a party pooper, hear me out.

The team should definitely be celebrating and be excited. The issue I have it was only the divisional series. They still have another series to win before going to the World Series. If you watched them you would think that they just won the World Series though. I understand that it has been a long time since the Tigers won a playoff series. 19 years to be exact. The way they were celebrating you would think that they would be satisfied stopping here. You saw players taking a victory lap around the stadium giving high fives to the fans and spraying them with champagne as well. We also saw Kenny Rogers pour a bottle of bubbly on top of a uniformed policeman on duty for crowd control, an image that will probably be replayed for the next 20 years. If this was the win that put them into the World Series, maybe. It just looked like this was a World Series type celebration, two series too soon.