BTW, you're totally right about MLB champions, Smooth. If any American sport wanted to rationally crown its champions in the way European football leagues do, it's baseball with its 162-game season. Basketball and hockey have their best-of-7 series playoffs, too, along with 82 game seasons, but hockey playoff OT is uniquely amazing and basketball has so many possessions the best team wins almost all of the time anyway. The Phillies were undoubtedly the best team in baseball last year, despite losing in the first round of the playoffs. That stuff doesn't happen in other American sports.