I love baseball, but when I put up detailed baseball posts/previews, they don’t get a whole lot of response. Maybe it’s because this is a Purdue site and so you aren’t here to talk baseball. But I’m not about to start a baseball blog when I’ve got access to this site. One of you should start one and then invite me on to guest-author posts. And pay me. Lots.Anyway, I still want to do my annual predictions so I’m going to rattle of the places with a statement about each team. It will be hard for me to limit myself to a line about each team but I know longer posts are hard for guys like B-dowd to make it all the way through.
Today, the National League.
NL West
LA Dodgers – A full season of Manny should be enough for this division.
Arizona – LA’s closest competition will have the horses but not quite enough wins.
Colorado – Yes, their World Series run in 2007 was unfortunately a fluke.
San Francisco – So they cut Bonds loose and they still suck? Interesting approach.
San Diego – Shouldn’t be a last place team, but for some reason are.
NL Central
Cubbies – Too talented not to win a lot of games in the regular season. Will, of course, flop again in the postseason.
Houston – Despite terrible play in the preseason, they had a great second half last year. If they fire Cecil Cooper soon enough, they have a chance at the Wild Card.
Cincinnati – Hard to remember them being good, but they have a LOT of talent on this team.
St. Louis – Even with that World Series win, they’ve been not much more than a mediocre .500 team for most of the past two decades.
Milwaukee – Huge step back for this team. They barely made it last year with Sheets and Sabathia pitching like mad.
Pittsburgh – I keep hearing they have to get good at some point. It won’t be this year, though. Consecutive losing season #17.
NL East
Philadelphia – Why do people keep picking the Mets? Granted, Philly would be nothing if the Mets could close anything out, but still.
NY Mets – Sure, they could win the division. With Daniel Murphy in LF and Ryan Church in RF. Would you be confident?
Atlanta – They always find a way to be in the mix.
Florida – Always scrappy enough to ruin other teams’ seasons in September.
Washington – It’s amazing how DC-based teams have sucked for years.
7 comments:
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Houston has the oldest lineup in the big leagues. I think they will get tired about July/August and want to take a nap, then get some Jell-o. The Cubbies will run away with the division, with a 4-way race for who comes in second, with not enough wins for a wild-card playoff spot. Bummer.
I can't even say the Cubs will make the playoffs despite their talent advantage. They should have done the same thing last year but failed miserably. Unfortunately, I'm not sure anyone can keep up. Too many questions with the veterans in Houston. Pudge, platoon at 3b, Matsui, Lee, Tejada, are any of these guys going to produce this year? Even as a Houston homer, I can't even expect that.
As far as the Mets, who I hate deeply (my first game at the Astrodome was the '86 15 inning game of the NCLS), they've got the bullpen to close games this year. They've got Putz to set up KRod. They shouldn't lose any game they are up in during the 7th inning.
POST NUMBER FOUR!!!!
J,
You wrote that "longer posts are hard for guys like B-Dowd" Shouldn't you have written that "B-Dowd likes hard guys with longer posts"?
Just wondering.
Reds win NL Central this year. Cubs missed the boat last year, must wait another century.
I can't believe ABC cancelled my favorite show - Life on Mars. More reason to hate the company that employs Digger Phelps.
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Bois -- You do know your men, I'll give you that.
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