With the regular season winding down, let's take a look at the current standings in the WPK:
As you can see we have a great pennant race going on in the SJL West between last year's SJL champs, San Antonio, and the 1979 WPK champs, El Paso. At the moment neither are playing particularly well and the oddsmakers give the advantage to San Antonio with 11 games remaining for each team, but its what happens on the field that matters. In case you are wondering, the two teams do face each other one last time in a three-game series that starts in just a few days time.
It looks like the Pittsburgh Roadrunners will take the SJL East, though Philly is still trying to fight their way into the picture. They also have one series left against each other at the end of the month, the penultimate series on the regular season schedule for each.
Over in the MGL, it appears that the expansion Montreal Royals will in fact make the playoffs in their first ever WPK season. They might even manage to do it with a winning record, even if only slightly. Brooklyn is their nearest competitor and time is running out fast for that perennially under-achieving club.
And in the MGL West, well, yeah, the Brewers are pretty much there, with their magic number down to 2 with 12 games remaining on their schedule. Sadly for the San Francisco Velocity this will probably be a season where they finish with the second best record in the WPK and don't make the post-season.