looks like i'm going to sneak in the back door. pretty much waved the white flag with three first round punch outs, but the $100M squad, down 2 games to 3 in the WS, found a way to win 2 games on the road, including game 7 against 95 greg maddux. throw in the fact that two of my teams had to win game 162 to make the post season, and we've pretty much been playing with our proverbial backs to the proverbial wall for the last two weeks.
consolation prize: all three teams that delivered the first round knockout blow to my squads all went on to the WS, so it took a championship caliber team to knock us out.
haven't even looked at the round 2 themes, but then again planning is over rated...