Baseball's second season gets underway Tuesday, and I'm already steeling myself to stay up watching until midnight every night for the next month. Also, if you're a fan of Joe Buck and/or Tim McCarver, you might want to avoid this blog- and every baseball blog, for that matter- for the next few weeks.
On to predictions: I said a few months ago that under no circumstances would the White Sox survive the first round, and I stick by that- the Chisox will fall to Boston in the Division Series round, while the Angels will drive a dagger through the heart of every Fox executive by beating the Yanks in the other series. And much as I'd like to see the Red Sox repeat, they just don't have the pitching. Angels in six.
Over in the NL, I see the Cards sweeping San Diego in the biggest playoff mismatch since the Yankees used to dismantle Texas every year. Atlanta will have more trouble with Houston, eventually prevailing, as I wonder if there's any way to root for no one in the battle of the Braves vs. Roger Clemens. Meanwhile, the Cards will close out Busch Stadium with a pennant- and a championship, too. They can't possibly play that badly in the World Series two years in a row.
My own personal nightmare? The miracle of '04 reversed with a Yankee victory over Boston, followed by yet another Yanks-Braves World Series. But there's no way the Baseball Gods could possibly hate me that much.
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 4, 2005 01:34 AMIf you hate Fox, you have to pull for a White Sox-Padres series.
There's a "finally!" story that could come if the ChiSox did anything, but nobody has any idea how to tell it. Like Boston and the Cubs, the Sox have a history of losing. Unlike the Red Sox and Cubs, however, we apparently never did it with any style.
Posted by: Gib at October 4, 2005 09:28 AMYANKS RULE!!! The baseball gods will hate you!
I predict it will be Yanks vs. Braves all over again!
As one infamous poster on SOSH always says in his .sig line ...
"It's amazing Tim McCarver can speak that clearly with Derek Jeter's dick in his mouth."
Posted by: LilB at October 5, 2005 11:05 AM