the Shoeless Joe League:
The offensively gifted San Antonio Keys enter the last month of the regular season having stretched out their lead over the pitching-rich Columbus Whalers to 6 games. It is never wise to count out the mighty Whalers but things are looking good for the best player and leader in baseball, Bud Lindsay, to finally take his team to the promised land. [Imagine, if you will, Mike Trout finally having the support around him to contend for a championship.] It looks like the talented Philadelphia Mud Hens will fall short this year but they are mostly young enough that their window of opportunity should stay open for at least another few years. Jacksonville becomes the most recent team to be officially eliminated, but really this race comes down to San Antonio and Columbus unless Philly can pull off some kind of miracle.
the Moonlight Graham League:
Anyone who has followed the WPK at all closely over the course of the past several seasons will be unsurprised that the Brooklyn Aces are among the most under-achieving teams in the MGL. It remains mostly inexplicable but at some point a pattern that repeats season after season can't just be accidental. According to the statistical experts the Denver Brewers have a 100% chance of winning the MGL once again. Everyone in Brewers nation will tell you that this is an exaggeration and that with 30 games remaining nothing has been won yet. Still, it would be pretty amazing (astonishing, miraculous, really) if either Los Angeles or Detroit somehow caught the Brewers down the stretch. There really isn't much to talk about here. Unless, maybe, about just how horrible the Phoenix Speed Devils are.