Well it was a hell of a season with some very unexpected twist and turns and for the first time since 1994 there will be no post season baseball in New York City. Way back in April we made some predictions for the season, so lets see how we did:
I had the Red Sox winning the East, Indians winning the Central, Angels the West and Yankees the Wild Card. In the NL I had the Mets, Cubs, D'Backs and Braves and had the Yankees beating the Mets in the World Series. I guess my World Series prediction won't come true and I went 3-8 in picking playoff teams. Fred went 4-8 picking the Angels, Red Sox, Brewers and Dodgers.
So the post season match ups are all set we have the Rays and White Sox in what could be an interesting match up because the Rays are a young team and it'll be something to see how they react to the big stage of the playoffs. The White Sox come in stumbling as they needed to go to a play-in game with the Twins to reach the post-season. I like the Rays to pull it out in 4 games.
The other AL match up has the defending world champions Red Sox at Anaheim. The Red Sox have a few key injuries and I think them playing on the road in Anaheim and battling the injuries to JD Drew, Mike Lowell and Josh Beckett might be a bit too much to overcome. I want to say Anaheim in 3 but I can't see the Sox going down that easily, my pick is Anaheim in 4.
On to the N.L. The Brewers will go up against the Phillies. The Brewers are coming off a dramatic weekend which saw them over-take the Mets and win the wild card. No Ben Sheets for the Brewers and C.C. will only get 1 start will be too much for the Brew crew. I like the Phils to take this one in 4 games.
The other match up is probably the best one of the first round. The Cubs and Dodgers, two teams with a lot of history and huge fan bases. I'm sure the suits at MLB and Fox love this match up. The Dodgers are one of these teams that are quietly good, you dont really hear much about them but they have decent starting pitching and a pretty good bullpen and with Manny playing for a contract, you know he's going to do his thing at the plate. The Cubs come in with big expectations as the Cubs faithful believe that this is finally the year that they go all the way. The Cubs have had the luxury of setting up there rotation so they will go with Dempster and Zambrano at a 1-2 punch. I can see this series going the distance and the Cubs pulling it off in 5 games.
Look for my post-season assesment of the Yankees and Mets coming soon.
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Well Let me start with the AL.
1st the series between the Rays and Whitesox, I dont like to predict how many games it would take so I'm just picking the winner. I like the Rays, but I pick Ozzie's White Sox to come out on top, I just like his fire and can see him pumping up his boys to come out on top of the young Rays.
In the other AL series, I'm picking the Angels over the Red Sox. I simply think the Angels have the best team this year, and the Red Sox are good too, but with all the injuries on the SOX's, it will just be to much to overcome vs. a Angel team that is just too strong.
Now to the NL. In the Phillies vs Brewers series I have to go with the Phillies to come out on top as well. I just think they have cluth hitters that last year did not perform in the postseason, so this time around they will be more hungry. Utley, Howard and Rollins should be able to handle the Brewer who's bullpen is not that much better then the Mets.
And now finally to the Dodgers vs the Cubs. This one here was the hardest series for me to pick.
I like the Cubs, but then again the Dodger's have good pitching, Manny Ramirez, and Joe Torre. But I'm going with the Cubs to beat the Dodgers by a hair.
I see me and you are on the same page except for the White Sox and the Rays.
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