Playoffs

15 July 2008

One of the All-Star Break traditions: Reassessing our predictions from the first half of the season. Some of mine have changed, some have stayed the same—and some were just damn wrong. Living in the West, I will take the contrarian position and roll from west to east in my choices.

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9 June 2008

It's easy when you're blogging every day and playing fantasy baseball to neglect the big picture of where the teams are and why. On the one hand, I'm annoyed by fans who start moaning that their team is two games back of first when only a week's worth of games have been played. But the time is nigh to pull my head out of the everyday grind and take a peek at the standings, which are starting to settle in, and see what stories are out there.

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28 May 2008

The Boston Celtics went up 3-2 in their series with Detroit with a big win at home on Wednesday night.  To me this means that the Celtics have basically clinched this series, because I dont think

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8 April 2008

The Detroit Tigers are looking like the Tigers of 2003, and not like the Tigers expected to be a playoff team. They currently sit at 0-7 and are in a deep hole that keeps getting deeper. Obviously through seven games it is impossible to tell who will and who won't make the playoffs, but an 0-7 start is clearly not the way a playoff caliber team should start.

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28 March 2008

AL MVP: Grady Sizemore, a true five tool talent, can hit for power, steal bases, and is a great center fielder. The Indians look strong this year and with Sizemore at the top of their lineup they will be a very tough team to beat.

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With a huge boost for the pitching staff in Erik Bedard the Mariners are hoping to become a more well rounded team. If King Felix pitches like he can, and Bedard can repeat his success then the Mariners will no longer have a blaring weakness on the mound.

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18 February 2008

With pitchers and catchers finally reporting to spring training, it marks the start of the 2008 season where anything is can happen.  It is a season where even the Tampa Bay Rays can contend for fourth place.  It is a season where the impossible turns into the possible.  Just listen to Ryan Dempster of the Chicago Cubs make a bold prediction, “I think we are going to win the World Series. I really do.”  Great, just what a Cubs fans need to hear, another prediction. 

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