It's finally back. Everyone on C&L knows I'm a huge Yankee fan. Hey, my mom and dad's first date was in the Bronx watching Whitey Ford pitch his first major league game. I do root a bit for the Dodgers since I live in LA, but I wouldn't mind seeing the Cubs break the Curse of the Billy Goat if the Yanks don't make it to the series which should be really tough with such a young pitching staff. Let's have your picks...
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The Astros all the way.
(This is acutually impossible this season, but I am already tired of hearing about the Cubs.)
Ah, it brings back memories of moving to Tennessee in the summer before 3rd grade. Second day there, some kid called me a Yankee as we were picking sides for wiffle ball. I said "I hate the Yankees," (at which point smiles on my companions) "I'm an Indians fan." (At which point they all looked at me like I was the dumbest person in the world.) So go Cleveland!
Red Sox, Tigers, Angels, wild card Indians
Braves, Brewers, Dodgers, wild card Mets
Braves over Tigers in the World Series
MVPs are Miguel Cabrera and Mark Texiera
Cy's are Justin Verlander and Johan Santana
Your Yankees are gonna finish 3rd in the division, Amato!
REEEEEEED SOOOOOX!
John,
My Dad used to take me to at least one double-header a year at Yankee Stadium in the days of Mantle and Maris, Clete Boyer, Yohi erra,Whitey Ford, and the rest of the greats. I was at the first "Bat Day" at Yankee Stadium when they gave Little League bats to all kids under the ge of 12; in the middle of the game, they asked the kids to hold the bats out: what an awesome sight!
Can you imagine giving out thousands of bats to kids now?
Wow!
Go Cubs! While I am not really much of a baeball (or sports) fan, I did live for 12 years about 5 blocks from Wriggley Field.
i used to love baseball.
*cough*
phillies?
"The Terrorists hate Baseball"
Surprised Bush hasn't used that yet.
This isn't the year to be talking about the goat episode. The last time the Cubs won a World Series, they were the beneficiary of the Merkle Boner. I like to think they're haunted by Fred Merkle and the NY Giants. I bring this up because this year, if things go as they have, will be 100 Years of Failure for the Cubs. I don't know of any organized team in anything that's lost 100 years straight. Quite a feat.
Obviously, I'm a White Sox fan. We only lost 87 years.
I love ya like a brother, Big John, but this year the Cleveland Indians are going to finish the job. Oh...by the way...how'd your Yanks make out against the Tribe in the playoffs of '07, eh?
I am rooting for the team that has a no tolerance policy toward steroids and goes back to supporting the use of simple drugs that won't kill a person outright. Which one is it? I used to think the Angels were good because they played little ball, don't know if that is the case any more, even Wally Joiner was juiced?
AL
Red Sox, Tigers, Angels, wild card Indians
NL
Mets, Brewers, Diamondbacks, wild card Padres
WS
Mets over Tigers in 6
oldtree @ 12:
It's all about winning. Players have to take drugs to be winners these days. To produce the profits their owners desire. No fans, no baseball team.
John,
I'll try and forget that you're a yankees fan.
Go Cubs!!
Red Sox.
But a special place in my heart for Nationals fans, who booed Bush lustily when he threw out the first pitch yesterday.
I mean it just goes to show you how screwed up we are.
People are against the war but go to the game and yell, "Take him out baby! Kick his ass!"
I`m a sorta Reds fan.The 1990 wire to wire and sweep of the A`s was sweet.Not much to cheer about since then.
In the 70s ,I had had a friend who hated the Reds.He`d come to work on Opening Day and tell everyone,"I hope the Reds lose every game."
I hope we do better than last year.I feel like a part-owner,as every time Ibuy something I`m paying for the stadium.I also just thought of something.The owners are Bushies.I HOPE THE REDS LOSE EVERY GAME.
Oh yeah, all you Cubbies fans DEFINITELY have a point!
I was pulling for 'em HARD back in '03...wearing a Cubs hat to work and everything. But the Marlins were not to be denied...
Dan @ 10:
I'm a Mariners fan (er-kind of. Default and all). We've never won. I think our other team did (The Pilots) after they were stolen by Milwaukee. No, I just checked. They never took it either.
Da Cubs
cubs vs mariners!
Sorry John -
The curse of Alex Rodriguez is going to continue again this year. The Yankees should have tossed him aside and focus on rebuilding the starting pitching staff.
Brewers all the way!
* If Fielder and Braun equal last year's numbers
* If Sheets stays healthy
* If Weeks breaks out
* If the defense improves
* If Gagne pitches well
* If the starters make it past the 6th inning
* If the bullpen doesn't get overworked
A lot of ifs, but on paper the Brewers should be there in October. They have a good mix of veterans and young guns, so I am hopeful. Just as long as it's not the Cubs.
That ain't cricket.
I don't know what's worse, baseball, a Ken Burns documentary on baseball, or a Billy Crystle doing his baseball bit.
Crystal.
Does Billy have crystal balls?
No accounting for taste. Me? Diehard Cardinal Fan. Caddied for Stan the Man after he retired. The only World Series I've ever attended was 1964, two games. John you might remember that series...LOL
Charlie @ 13:
Sorry, Charlie. (You KNOW I had to say that!) The fact of the matter is that the scrappy Indians--with their Cy Young winner, CC Sabathia--have proven theycan beat both the Tigers and the Angels...and were up 3-0 against Boston in the playoffs last year.
Think they can't do it this year??
Ever hear of a guy named Bill James? If you're a baseball fan, chances are he's changed the way your favorite team does business. He might even be the reason they got rid of your favorite player! James invented something called "Sabermetrics" - loosely defined as the analysis of baseball through objective evidence. Does it work? Since he got hired by the Red Sox five years ago, the team has won two World Series.
Maybe we should apply Sabermetrics to Politics and Government.
yes, CUBS
the Mets make up for last years fall and win the World Series.
As Jack Brickhouse, the late, longtime Cub announcer has said, 'Anyone can have a bad century.'
Also its interesting that every time the Red Sox win the World Series, the White Sox are the next winner/
Samson- @ 8:
Yo, Phillie! And to quote the late great Steve Gilliard: "Fuck the fucking Yankees!"
Braves.
Here's to a Tampa-Pittsburgh championship, with the Bucs winning in 7!
BREWERS!
Thats where we fu*ked up. We need some pro baseball in Iraq damn it! Thats the missing element!
We could have been enjoying The Boston Red Sox versus the Baghdad Rag Heads or the Los Angeles Angels versus The Basra Devils by now.
You think Baseball fanatic Boosh would have thought of that.
Let's go, Dodger Blue!
I'll be at Dodger Stadium in a couple of hours to watch their season opener. Surprised I'm actually going considering how much of a pain in the ass it was getting to and from the stadium last year on opening day.
I think we've got a great chance at winning the NL West; not too sure about our chances the rest of the way though.
Angel Of Mercy @ 29:
I 100% agree. Indians up 3-0 against Red Sox in AL Finals, and lose 4-3, and Sox repeat. The Curse is truly reversed so that now they win 86 out of 100 WS in 2000-2099.
Go Sox from RSN South Florida!!!
Sorry, Charlie. (You KNOW I had to say that!) The fact of the matter is that the scrappy Indians–with their Cy Young winner, CC Sabathia–have proven theycan beat both the Tigers and the Angels…and were up 3-0 against Boston in the playoffs last year.
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Actually they lost the first game to the Sox but were up 3 games to 1 when the pitching rotations swung in Boston's favor. Two good teams, could well meet again for another great series.
Go BREWERS!
Cubby Bluuuuuuuuuuue!!
Sorry, John, this is the Tigers' year. Book it. :)
There's no A-Rod curse - in fact, he's the reason the Yankees were even in it last year. No A-Rod last year, no playoffs.
If they come out strong in April, I think the Yanks will take the AL East, which they only lost last year by two games thanks to a horrid start.
AL: Yanks, Detroit, Seattle, WC - Red Sox
NL: Mets, MIL, Arizona, WC - Cubs
What about my Giants?!?!? All the way!! Yeah!!!
...*...
Yeah...
Yeah, I know....
[sigh]
Nice ballpark, anyway...
I love all the 'ifs' in the Brewer fan's post. Reminds me of Mad magazine's:
When Onassis goes broke
When the H-bomb's a joke
When bookies no longer take bets
When bacon is kosher
Then Leo Durocher
Will take seven straight
From the Mets.
Also, did anyone else try to watch the Nats/Braves game last night? Shrub together in the booth with Joe Morgan made me so ill I had to stop watching. It was like watching the Omen and the Antichrist discussing the beauty of Paris Hilton's soul.
Braves!
Absolutely no doubt about it. LETS GO METS!
Ernie Banks being honored before Cubs opener right now on WGN!
Yankees!
What about the Southern California Angels From Orange County, or whatever they call that team now. They had a good season last year, they're a powerhouse team. I think they could be a team to watch this year as well.
John Amato= Pick a team
I pick states to stop paying professional sports franchises hundreds of millions of dollars in tax payer money to build their stadiums as ticket prices continue to rise. So far NY tax payers are giving Steinbrenner 800 million dollars in subsidies to build the new Yankee stadium.
Yankees fan?
My condolences for bearing up with the heartbreak of rooting for a team that has only won a paltry one out of every four World Series ever played and little more than one-third of all American League pennants.
There's probably SOME pain involved in being a Yankees fan, but nothing like the rest of us are used to. (Did I mention the Phils?)
Damn good website, though.
My predictions for '08:
AL East: Red Sox
AL Central: Indians
AL West: Mariners
Al WC: Yankees
AL Champs: Red Sox
NL East: Mets
NL Central: Cubs
NL West: Padres
NL WC: Phillies
NL Champs: Phillies
WS Champs: Red Sox in 6 (Sox finally get to celebrate WS victory at Fenway, and Philly fans get a new reason to hate New England)
AL MVP: Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP: Ryan Howard (again)
AL Cy: Felix Hernandez
NL Cy: Cole Hamels
I'm so glad it's baseball season again. Even though John's a Yankee fan, I'll continue to read C&L.
Filthy Harry @ 54:
The owners are money grubbing slime balls. Take away the tax payer trough from these guys and then they pull the we'll move the team to another city black mail card.
M-E-T-S!
Go Tigers. Best hitting line-up and starting pitching in baseball, but can the relief core do its job? That will decide who wins the AL Central between them and the Indians. Red Sox will be a factor as will the Angels. I'll be rooting for the Tigers but realize there is no sure thing in baseball. Whoever comes out of the AL will win it all.
bob @ 34:
Down here we just say, "Damn yankees!"
http://www.subgenius.com/
The Yankees all the way. It sucks I'm sitting here waiting for the game to come off of rain delay.
Go Tigers!
Although everyone thinks they are underdogs this year, The Cardinals will be playing in October again. Today is opening day in St Louis and it is virtually an official holiday. As we speak, a sold out crowd in Busch Stadium is getting ready to watch the opening day festivities. (They are also getting very wet from the rain currently falling.) Play Ball!
Well, John, you're a good guy and I've decided it's not your fault that you root for the Yankees. That's an accident of birth thing that connects you back to days of yore, before the insufferable Steinbrenner era.
But the Dodger love disturbs me, buddy. When I lived in LA I took a lot of pride for rooting against the damn Boys of Summer. Of course, I'm a dyed in the wool San Francisco Giants fan going back to my boyhood worship of Willie McCovey; so I know right from wrong. Which in this case is very simple. Giants = good; Dodgers = evil.
Anyway, I'm telling ya... it was an amazing feeling to boo Orel Hershiser in Dodger Stadium!
In closing I want to say to all the impressionable kids out there that, contrary to the example of a very strong and grounded individual like John Amato, please be aware that, much like playing golf, rooting for the Yankees can be a gateway drug to becoming a Republican.
So please don't be seduced by the glamour and glitz of Yankee World. If you do you're playing with fire, and the next thing you know you might be discussing your stock portfolio while cheering for Roger Clemens.
L.A. Confidential @ 57:
Well seeing as how a given percentage of any group of taxpayers couldn't care less about pro sports I say we call their bluff.
Old Billy Hussein @ 62:
Yup. Big bats, great starting rotation, solid relievers and closer, experience, hunger, and awesome manager.
Tigers = 2008-09 WSC
P.S. They are up 2-0, Top of the 5th against KC. Verlander has a one-hitter so far.
"When it comes to baseball,
I've got two favorite clubs:
My Chicago White Sox
And whoever plays the Cubs!"
And screw the Evil Empire of the South Bronx.
lewisnclark @ 64:
[chuckling!]
Nice one.
I love baseball. I cheered for the Reds, as that was my husbands team and we lived in Ohio at the time. However, now divorced, should I now cheer for the Nats and forget the Reds? Does baseball team love die with the marriage?
Yankees Suck.
Red Sox Nation 4 Life.
Sports are retarded. Especially to blog about to a bunch of political junkies. Rooting for a specific team is the same thing as "AMERICA, FUCK YEA" nonsense.
*Clap* *Clap* *clap clap clap*
my pick?
baseball sucks period.
Menig @ 39:
I went to that fiasco at the coliseum sat nite. That was a pain in the ars.
A Yankees fan, huh? Well that's unfortunate.
Being a Red Sox fan, I know better than to pick them. Just because they're winners lately doesn't mean there isn't a chance to have your heart broken...again.
Let's say Detroit?
Sports? Why?
Are the BILLIONS of sites devoted to this topic shut down, requiring one of my favorite progressive sites to bore me to f-ing tears with this waaaaay over-covered topic?
Hope they're back up soon.
Speaking as a Canadian, baseball seems a quaint and enjoyable pastime. And this baseball season, maybe someone will actually break a sweat! :D
With seven all stars in the starting line up the Tigers look pretty good.
As always, it depends on the pitching.
Being a Yankee's fan is a huge credibility problem for John Amato. If a team ever embodied the values of the GOP, it'd be the Yankees. I don't think I'll ever read this blog the same way again. ;)
For my fellow sports fans, you should really see The Onion's report on the latest Sepak Takraw controversy.
john: i'm from the bronx as well (born 1951 so we're some kind of contemporaries, i imagine) - macombs road and featherbed lane and then grand avenue and west tremont. (104, 82 and then roosevelt high school) there was an amato family that lived right near the 82 (that's j.h.s. 82) schoolyard. had a bunch of boys, one named dougie who was a terrific pitcher in stickball. had an assortment of pitches all based on the knuckler which made him hard to hit. related to you, perhaps? aside from the bluer than blue politics we share, who knows, maybe we have some bronx connections as well? the website kicks ass, by the way. keep it going.
go new orleans dickskins! first in the new league to use a base ball bat made with real bats!!!
The Giants will win (at least)110 games this year, cruise through the playoffs, and sweep that luckless AL team whose misfortune will be to play them in October.
And the 49ers will win next year's Super Bowl.
Indians all the way !!! It's been 60 years !!! That's a long enough wait.
NY METS BABY!!!!!
I've been a big time Yankee fan for over 45 years, I was 7 and saw Mantle hit one into the right field seats. It's the last year for the Stadium and I am going to try like hell to take my 2 year old to a game if I get back there this Summer.
I also live in LA and watched in a surreal moment the other day as Torre walked out the mound in a Dodger uniform. I tried to rationalize in my mind that Joe was probably an old Dodger fan from the Brooklyn days and thus it made sense. But they are celebrating the 50th year of the Dodgers out here, and it's not, it's the 50th year since the Dodgers abandoned Brooklyn to head West, not something to cheer about.
Will all you people that don't like sports shut up and stay off the damn thread please?
"But thiiiiiis iis a poliiiitical blog". "Sports are stupid". All of it. Just stop.
mellowjohn @ 67:
That's what I'm talkin' about!
Go White Sox. More specifically, go Scott Linebrink and the White Sox.
(in best John Sterling voice...)
yankees suck,
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
YANKEES SUCK !!!
SatanHimself @ 76:
Royals fan huh ?
bummer.
Ash"Hussy"Williams @ 86:
you go girl!
theandrewalter @ 31:
every hundred years.... like clockwork !
you can set your WATCH to them.
Chico Hussein @ 88:
Chico Hussein @ 88:
Oops....let me repost that:
KC managed to tie it up with the Tigs and push the game to extra innings…..bastards.
Developing….
Dr. Hussien Matt @ 91:
That should extend Royal fans' hopes all the way out to early April !!
Well, it ain't gonna be my guys, the Giants. They've gone longer than anyone except the Indians and the Cubbies without taking it all. So I'm rooting for a WS between the Cleveland and the Cubbies so that at least one of them gets out of the Giants' way (as have, at last, the White Sox and Red Sox).
Go Jays Go!
Provided everyone can stay healthy, maybe the Blue Jays have a shot at the AL East.
One caveat: The Yankees and Red Sox must leave this division.
I'm rooting for the Lakers in the NBA finals, and the 'Huskers in the College Football season, with a whole lot of extra time working for Obama & Co inbetween. :)
Angel Of Mercy @ 29:
Flori-DUH @ 40:
Come on you guys, the Tribe never led 3-0 . . .
The Red Sox won Game One of that series 10-3, scoring 8 runs on Sabathia!
DocG @ 45:
Daisuke Matsuzaka had more post-season RBIs that A-Rod last year. :D
Check that - It's looking like my Baseball Huskers could make it to Omaha this year, so I may be looking in on them, hoping they can finally do some damage there, as well...
And I actually do have a rooting interest in Pro Baseball, but they actually succeed so rarely, I'd forgotten -- The TWINS!! (Angles would be a distant second.)
DHSmd @ 99:
They were preeetty good last year as far as I can remember.
DHSmd @ 96:
I stopped reading right there. Something about Kobe and the Fantastic Duo Waltons I don't like.
And now with the Suns without Marion, it seems they aren't the team I used to love, so I suppose I'll cheer for Houston or Dallas.
Niners Baby!
Lakers!
and fer bazeboll...Giants
Go Cards!!!!! Love my red birds :)
MLB? As in Mucho Lagging Boredom?
No thanks. I'll stick to watching proper baseball on NHK World, from Japan. Korean ball is also excellent, though more AL than NL, and I don't get it on my TV. (Both leagues are halfway between AAA and the Majors.)
Bud Selig and the MLB owner don't want to get rid of steroids, no matter what they say or do, or how many cheaters get caught. It's just like the olympics: records sell tickets, not race winners. Home run totals and record times are sexy, sacrifice plays and gold medals aren't.
If the MLB owners really wanted an end to steroids, they would call the strike zone as the rules say: armpits to knees and the width of the plate. If the strike zone were the size of a door instead of a keyhole, all the steroid monkeys would be out of baseball in two years. How, exactly, you ask?
First, juiced up hitters wouldn't be able to swing through a tiny strike zone anymore. Rising fastballs and curveballs would return. Singles hitters who can move the bat will be at a premium, and the freaks would be out of a job. Barroid Bonds would be laughed at while Vladimir Guerrero would probably become the dominant player in the game.
Second, without the need for overpowering stuff, pitchers wouldn't need to bulk up either. Knuckleballs would return, and pitchers wouldn't need to overwhelm hitters anymore. We'd see more 20 game winners with the same amount of talent as there is now. "Strikeout kings" are boring; I want to see contact and infields with gold gloves.
Third, players wouldn't get injured as much. We'd see fewer decapitating line drives, fewer injuries on unnatural bodies from wear, and outfield collisions that don't cause concussions. Fewer homers and more contact also means more base stealing and creative managing. Smart management and drafting would win World Series, not chequebooks. (Yankee fans, prepare for another 20 year drought.)
When teams like the mid-1980s Cardinals return, call me. Until then, I'll stick to exciting baseball from the Land of the Rising Fun. Or did you not see the "World Baseball Classic" in 2006 and not know what I'm talking about?
Go A's!
Yeah, I said it. Even though they're in rebuilding mode, they might surprise everyone in the West Division.
Otherwise, I'd like to see Cleveland finish the job this year.
Yankees suck!
GO SOX!!!
john,
you rock!! this site does what i need and i am grateful.
But: SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!! the upside is some red sox players are native ny'ers so at least you'll have that.
hehe
Sadly, I predict that my two teams (the Giants and Royals) will languish.
"You don't love 'em because they're great. You love 'em because they're yours."
The Yankees are baseball ; the rest are just there for decoration ........
Yankees over the Mutts in the World Series in 6 games (you NY Mutts fans thought choking last year was painful? Wait till November)
Well I grew up an Expos fan so I'm definitely NOT rooting for the Nationals.
My new team to cheer for is the White Sox so.... GO (White) SOX!
Nos Amours
The Montreal Expos
(1969-2004)
ROYALS WIN!
That felt good...I hope to say it a lot more time this season.
Irving Smallfield @ 109:
I can't stand the White Sox, the only AL Central team that I feel that way about.
Irving Smallfield @ 109:
They were a sad 35 years.
The world series winners will not be an a American team but Canadian.........of course this only will prove that our Americans are better than your Americans. However the winning run will be knocked in by a Canadian.........Matt Stairs.
Go Jays Go!
The series will be won in six and the Jays will beat Detroit one of our tradition highway rivals when they were in our division.
Sorry Yankee fans
Go Tigers!
2006 was a welcome change from the two decades of futility following the exciting pennant race of 1987 and the wire to wire WS in 1984. I've been a fan ever since we were finally able to catch a game at the old Tiger Stadium in the mid-70s. The first three or four times we went there, the games were rained out. Lucky me--in my first game, I saw Mark Fidrych pitch, and I've loved the Tigers ever since (strike years not included).
Slaw I sat next to The Bird on a plane once, nicest guy you could ever meet.
The MFYs are so 20th Century.
sooth hussein sayer @ 115:
Was he as goofy as he was made out to be?
It's really too bad that his injury didn't happen a decade or two later. Today they could have fixed his arm, and he could have had a full career.
Sweet Jesus! How soon you all forget about the Rockies.
Huge Yankees fan, but we've still got 10 years of losing and self-loathing to go, all at an affordable $27.5 mil a year.
Die, A-Rod, Die!
(Note: I'm of course speaking the German for, "The, A-Rod, The". No reason for mods to get upset.)
Slaw @ 117:
He was friendly and very humble; not goofy at all.
I'm not a Tigers fan, but I remember cheering for him when he made his big splash!
Go Cubs! I don't know about their chances, but I still have to root for 'em...
Tommy Gunn @ 119:
I like your German...but Dude...he's the best player in the game. How many runs scored does Jeter's leadership give you? How many home runs do the pin stripes provide? Those who say that A-Rod chokes in the post season 1) haven't looked at his career numbers 2) taken a critical look at many of the Captain's years and 3) don't understand statistics and sample size.
You haven't won in a few years because A-Rod can't pitch. If you had put something other than a AAA starting staff last year, your team would have dominated more than it did.
John is a die-hard Yankee fan and doesn't know the National League at all. He is a closeted Dodger-hater. He wants the Cubs so he can torture me as Dodger Fan. He knows it would pain me if the Dodgers don't win it this year and he hates the fact that Torre signed with the D's. Stick to your own league, Amato. Heh, heh, heh.
Tigers are a certainty! Who cares if they give up 5 runs a game ... they're going to score 9!
Mark Groubert @ 123:
That is a slanderous lie...hehe...I feel the Cubs pain..Torre does look funny in Dodger Blue...
Go Dodgers...50 years in LA!
Dodgers are beating the Giants right now.
I am rooting for the Nationals now, since the fans booed W.
Los Angeles Angels.
David Rouyer @ 111:
AL Central - the WORST division in baseball due to the fact that it's home to the WORST team in all of baseball - sadly, my hometown KC Royals - as well as THREE teams I cannot stand: White Sux, Detroit (THE MOST OVERRATED TEAM IN BASEBALL!), and Cleveland.
Liberal Jer @ 126:
Been a fan of the Nationals since baseball wanted to contract the then-Montreal Expos. Congrats on the new ballpark, DC.
NL Go Cardinals!
AL Go Tigers!
If not the Cards then Go Cubbies!
If not the Tigers then Go Indians!
The Political Junkie @ 104:
Youre right. they could definately come out of left field (no pun intended) crack some heads in a rather weak AL west, especially if kelvim escobar has that season-ending shoulder surgery iv been hearing about. heres how im gonna break it down:
AL West:A's (so what if I'm bias. screw it.)
AL Central:Tigers
AL East:Red Sox
AL WildCard:Indians
AL Champ:Indians
NL West:D-Backs
NL Central:Brewers
NL East: Mets
NL WildCard:Dodgers
NL Champ:Mets
Indians in 6 to win it. That's right. The yanks aint got the pitching to make it to the postseason. and it'll take a truck load of prospects for the A's to offload Rich Harden, so dont even think about it Johnny boy.
The ghost of Roberto Clemente will help the Pirates return to greatness. It will certainly take something like that to get them into playoff contention again.
Oakland A's.
Why?
BECAUSE I SAID SO!
John:
Your Yankees have the hitting but not the pitching this year. Look across the river at the Mets and you will see a good pitching staff.
I like the Mets vs. Detroit in the world series.
The dark horses are Boston and Arizona - yes Arizona with that great 1-2 pitching punch.
I had to scroll a long way to see people with common sense, to the 95th comment.
Let's Go Blue Jays!!!
heathwood @ 33:
Well, that's not true. The sequence was reversed in 1917/1918, with the White Sox wining in 1917 and the Red Sox winning (against the Cubs, natch) in 1918.
But as a White Sox fan, I'd happily watch my team follow up last year's Red Sox WS repeat with one of their own.
As for the Cubs. . . the fans are going to have to stop referring to "the century of futility" very soon, and just resign themselves to the fact that maybe this was just the first century of futility.
Here we go Cleveland, here we go!! Let's go tribe!
John,
Read your site each night and thanks for the articals.
I hope my Red Sox come out of the AL east . Being a Red Sox fan means you
follow the Yankees almost as closely. Other then the Sox winning these last few years, the biggest and best develpment possibly for the Sox is Hank Steinbrenner.
Hank could be the largest reason keeping the Sox ahead of the Yanks for the next generation...At least thats what my brother and I constantly tell each other...
Go Tribe!
Phillies?...Anyone?.....No?...(sigh)...Pithching!Pitching!Pitching!...Same sh*t different year....(sigh)
Can't wait for the parade to celebrate 100 years of futility for the Cubs.
Play Ball!!!
Anyone that is a Yankee fan would be happy living in Taiwan, where I live. This country has Yankee fever because of Wang ChenMing. Too bad he isn't on the Mets. (yep, I am a lifelong Met fan).
Great Site John + all. Thanks for keeping us informed. More Jon Stewart videos please. (!!)
Hi John,
I enjoy reading your blog daily. The Yankees come to Pittsburgh this year, please have them take it easy on our Buccos!!! Hope to see you at the series.
Best Regards,
EMBA30
Yah know I'm a KC fan. LOve th site but Yankees suck! Playball!
Mariners!!! They have the best lineup in all of baseball
I really hope the Blue Jays will be able to do something this year
The Cubs!!!!! Come on, after 100 years, time and the law of averages is on our side. Chicago will go insane this fall.
Ok, so I'm not the most sports savvy, but I gotta go with my hometown Birds...yes, the Baltimore Orioles!
They're not the same since Iron Man Cal Ripken retired, but I miss B-more and so I'll root, root root for the home team from Hillbilly Hell...Arkyland.
This is Red Sox nation people! Go Red Sox all the way and there is no doubt in my mind. The Red Sox have broken the curse and their a dynasty again! The pitching staff in phenomenal and the line up is impeccable. Have you seen mannies sick hair? How could you possibly say that he wont hit like 40 bombs and win the world series for the 3rd time in 5 years. David Ortiz is also healthy again and lost uneeded pounds in the off season. With the whole team healthy and focused on another pennant the Sox will bring another one back to Boston!
so many red sox fans think their battling against the riptide playing in the same division as the "evil empire" yankees, but make no mistake, the Red Sox are nipping at their heels in payroll spending. (Yankees at $210 million, Red Sox $150 million, the disparity would be far more insignificant if A-Rod was not on the payroll.) The way I see it, theres the Evil Empire, and his red-headed step-child up in Boston, no pun intended. Let's hear it for small-market teams. Go Oakland!
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