Can Anyone win the NL Worst?

Will anybody win the NL Worst...er West? The Pads look like they have it locked down , but need to win 4 of their last 5 to get over .500. Yeeesh. The '73 Mets went 82-79 and were heretofore the worst team to get to the postseason. They beat the Reds in 5, only because they had the alternating year home field advatange. The Pads might steal one game in the NLDS, but even the WIld Card is better. The sad thing is that unless Philly wins the wild card, the wild card winner will play San Diego and St. Louis and Atlanta will play each other in the NLDS instead of the NLCS. Houston will go to San Diego split the first two games and then whip the Pads in Houston and wait for the winner of the Cards-Braves series which will be a doozy. Its not right. The Cards having home field advantage with the best record can't play the wild card if they come out of the same division. The right way to do things would be to have St. Louis push the Pads out and the Braves/Astros series be the true test. But it won't happen that way. Watch this space next week and I'l have a playoff prevue on Monday. The AL situation is just as messy before the postseason. If the Yanks, Red Sox and Indians finish in a three way tie, the AL East will have a 1 game playoff at Yankee Stadium with the loser playing the Indians for the wild card. If its four teams the divisions play each other then the losers of the divisional playoffs play each other to determine the wild card. The beneficary of all this might be the Angels, the first team to clinch who will rest and wait to see who they play. I like this and Bud Selig should be lauded for the wild card idea. Even the so-called purists have to give Bud some dap for this. It could very well be a two-day three city knockout tourney just to determine who gets in. ESPN should pounce on these games should they happen and make it a afternoon double header 1p and 4p on 10/3 with an afternoon slot if needed for a extra wild card playoff. In much darker baseball news. The Orioles told that cheater Raffy "the rat fink" Palmiero that he was felina non grata, cat not welcome with the Orioles and to go on home. Its sad that one of the games better hitters had to go out the way he did. He made his own bed though and has to lie....(pun intended) in it. In related news Senator John McCain openly blasted MLB Union Chief Donald Fehr asking him "(did) he get it?" Fehr who has blindly marched to the beat of anything the owner say is bad and that those same owners want nothing more than to cheat the players. True the owners can be conniving and have been in the past, but the Union head needs to realize that steroids can harm the game and a 3 strikes and your out policy while not as strict as what Congress want, a draconian two years for the first offense and a lifetime ban for the second offense. Shockingly give Bud dap again for a more reasonable proposal 50 games for the first offense 100 for the second and life for the third. I like a penalty running 81 games (1/2 season for the first offense) 1 year for the second and life the third. If caught in the middle or late in the season the penalty crosses into the next year and you cannot play in spring training. Add to boot, what salary your draw at least 50 percent is sent to charity or some kind of drug education program. Hit 'em in the wallet hard and that will be enough of a deterrent.