Clay Davenport escaped whatever dungeon the evil Joe Sheehan keeps him locked in just long enough to write an article on how the post-season odds progressed at the end of the 1964 season. It's a pay article, but basically Davenport did the same thing he's been doing for much of this season. As late as 9/23/64 the Cards had almost no chance at winning the pennant. Then they went on an 8-game winning streak while the Phillies kept losing, shooting the Cards' odds all the way to 80%. Of course the Cardinals then dropped two games just to make it interesting.

It's tempting to compare the 1964 Phils to Danny Graves, but their collapse evidently isn't that far off the beaten path. The Phils maxed out at 96%, which means that once every 25 races or so somebody should blow something similar. Consider that there are 8 races per year now, or maybe it's 6, and we should get the "moved to the Philippines and were renamed the Manilla Folders" joke at least once every five years.