Mexican Soccer Championship a Done Deal Even With Final Game Left

Even with the final match looming on Sunday, it should be pretty clear to anyone that Santos Laguna is the new Mexican Premier League MX champion for the Clausura split-season this year.  This is because the northern Mexico team thoroughly annihilated their finals opponent Queretaro  5-0 in their opener for the two-game series.  Last night's game was at Santos Laguna while the Sunday contest takes place at Queretaro. The series winner is determined by adding the goals of each team for each game.  It's going to take a miracle of sorts for Queretaro to come back from five goals down...

Santos Laguna is one of those teams that peak just at the right time of the year...barely making the playoffs as an eighth seed and then plowing through opponent after opponent.  In this, they remind me of last year's two World Series baseball teams, Kansas City and San Francisco, who both sneaked into their finals as wild-card teams while others were given more attention over the course of the year.  However, if I had my way, the World Series would have been between the top-two regular season teams in each league and the Liga MX championship would have simply been the aggregate best team over that league's regular season as a whole, without the gimmicks of split seasons and playoffs.  By this, then, the Tigres of UANL (a Monterrey team) would have won the Liga MX championship outright and the Los Angeles Angels would have faced the Washington Nationals instead in the World Series.  Of course, had "my" system been in place, I'm sure that the various teams and their management would have made many different decisions and would consequently have caused the results to be different as well...