The Dodgers reduced their "magic number" to clinch the National League West to eight games. I read somewhere the other day that major league baseball now wants it called the "elimination number". I am guessing that the power brokers in baseball wants to disassociate itself from the word "magic."
Baseball is magic. It is a sleight of hand, the hidden ball trick, making the impossible catch or the impossible throw. Baseball is getting the winning hit or squeezing the final out and winning the championship. Baseball is Bobby Thomson's homer, Willie Mays catch, Fernando Valenzuela and "Fernandomania", the Red Sox winning the World Series, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, the latest rookie to take baseball by storm. Baseball is all of that and more. Baseball is magic and baseball has always been all about the numbers. Baseball needs to leave the "magic number" alone.
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