Closing month of the season...

[thesightless]

who thinking what? ill wait a bit before ruining it with my guys.

whats gonna happen, what should happen, who is gonna be the difference maker.

[Weizy]

Re: Closing month of the season...

American League

yankees easily take the east without any serious pressure from the BoSox

Oakland will just barely take the west with some chase from the Angels to keep them motivated through the dog days

in the al central the tigers will limp to a pennant with both the twins and ChiSox nipping at their heels

the wild card will surprisingly go to my beloved twins due to the implosion of the ChiSoxand Thome's hammy. Ozzie Guillen will b crucified in the papers in Chicago without a playoff berth and will soon not be so well likes for his abusive style of managing.

"Don't let the door hit your broken english speaking ass on the way out!"

"HA HA you position has been usurped"

National League

I have the Mets, Reds, and Padres with pennants and who gives a shit who takes the wild card. the NL is such a mediocre league. sorry NL fans but its true!

[thesightless]

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NL wildcard.
nl wildcard
nl wildcard.

gonna come down to the 13th hour.

[Weizy]

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NL wildcard.
nl wildcard
nl wildcard.

gonna come down to the 13th hour.

what is funny is that whatever mediocre squad gets it has as good a chance as any NL playoff team to get the World Series

[thesightless]

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nah, i watch the mets evryday, and they are going to series unless the cards can pull thier heads out of their asses and edmunds, rolen and the bullpen get it together.

[Jenks]

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NL:

Mets (duh)
Cards (fingers crossed)
Dodgers
wc- Reds

AL:

Yanks
Tigers
A's
wc- Twins

I think any picking beyond that is just picking names out of a hat, but this is what fans do, so lets start picking- While the Yanks are clearly the hottest team right now, what the tigers have done all season with consistency can't be overlooked (although they've been slipping just a bit of late, which is typical of a team that dominates for an entire season- aka - Seattle 117 wins anyone?). And what the Twins have done the second half can't be overlooked either. Twins have two insane pitchers. Sadly, i still think the Yanks win the AL unless hopefully someone gets injured on their squad. Fingers crossed. Yanks vs. Tigers would be immense. I didn't mention the A's because they're the A's.

With the NL, as Weizy said...it's anyone's to grab. If the Cards make it, you can count the Dodgers out, because we just know how to beat them. If the Reds make it, look out for the Dodgers imo, they're peaking at the right time. The Mets with Wright, Beltran, are clearly the favorites to win the NL. Basically what i'm saying is, the Cards and Reds have a slim chance of getting to the WS, let alone competing in it. We've got some serious personell issues here in stl, namely our best closer is named Isringhausen, and for whatever reason, our bats dissappear on some nights.

If i had to pick today-

it's a subway series...Go Mets.

NL MVP - Ryan Howard is the stat choice (except he's also almost leading in strikeouts,) but the Phillies probably won't make the playoffs, so you can't give it to Howard if they don't get in, same with Soriano, move to a different team boys. Carlos Beltran has been killing it all year, in NY no less. He's a few behind in all the stat categories, but he's still right there, and if he pulls some typical Beltran heroics in the playoffs, it's a done deal for the mvp imo. Pujols, not quite enough this year imo even though he's leading Beltran in most categories across the board (especially batting .40 points higher). If you take pujols off the cards team, they're not even close to making the playoffs, so that's certainly means he's their MVP...league wide tho, i dunno, it's going to come down to the playoffs. First half of the season, Poohole was a shoein, now it's questioable.

NL Cy Young - who the fuck knows, i don't think the NL is going to have a 20 game winner this year. If you look at the other stats, you gotta pick Zambrano, but can you reward a pitcher on a last place team? i dont think so.

AL MVP - Jeter (unless the Twins win it all, then Santana gets it)
AL Cy- Santana

[Weizy]

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some great prognostication going on in this thread.

a subway series is definitely a possibility. careful though you may give sightless a hard on with talk like that

[thesightless]

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AL Cy- Santana

AFTER 2 ok starts, watch out for wang to make a run. boy is unhittable 9 of 10 times. low era, low hits, NO homeruns, goes long innings, but he is a rookie so i doubt it.

[thesightless]

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and my hardon isnt going away after what you see in my sig. might take another week or two.

[Lrn]

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Yanks
Tigers
A's
wc- Twins
if so then


alds:

yankees vs twins or white socks

a's vs tigers.
(not looking forward to seeing verlander, rogers, and bonderman but hopefully we will have harden in the bullpen that would be so huge)

[Jenks]

Re: Closing month of the season...

some great prognostication going on in this thread.

well, that's all we can do at this point isn't it?

Or do you want someone to go out on a limb??

ok, i'll walk said limb...


Tigers vs Dodgers in the WS

Tigers win it all.

[Lrn]

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hehe dodgers, yea you wish

[Jenks]

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yeah, i know. i was just walking the limb for the sake of walking it. i hate the dodgers, with the exception of maddux.

[thesightless]

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maddux = legendary player if anyone actually watched him. years and years of crafty dominance. i give him as much credit as clemens and those guys. he is still going, in the middle of a nice resurgence on his behalf. i havent seen anyone on the planet with control like he has.

[thesightless]

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double post