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03-24-2008, 04:27 PM
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2008 MLB Thread
"Opening Day" is about 12 hours away (in Japan!).
I suppose it's time to shift gears away from spring training and start looking at the season which is already upon us. As Yogi supposedly once said, "It gets late early out there." 
Bring on the predictions!
There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!
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03-24-2008, 04:33 PM
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Re: 2008 MLB Thread
Division Winners:
AL: Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Cleveland(WC)
NL: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadephia (WC)
I'll take Boston over NY in the Series.
There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!
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03-24-2008, 05:59 PM
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Re: 2008 MLB Thread
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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon
"Opening Day" is about 12 hours away (in Japan!).
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The first "Opening Day" of the season. Sunday is Opening Night and Monday is, officially, Opening Day. You gotta love MLB's semantics.
Anyway...predictions. Hopefully these are better than last year's. 
AL: East - Boston; Central - Detroit; West - Anaheim; WC - Seattle
NL: East - Philly; Central - Chicago; West - Los Angeles; WC - Arizona
World Series: Detroit over Arizona (upsetting the executives at FOX)
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03-24-2008, 06:41 PM
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Re: 2008 MLB Thread
Getting up early tomorrow! It's going to be a fun couple days of being more or less useless at work 
AL: Boston, Detroit, Anaheim, New York (WC)
NL: New York, Chicago, Colorado, San Diego (WC)
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03-24-2008, 07:22 PM
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Man... predictions already! I'm just glad the new season is upon us. It validates Springtime in my mind. WOO HOO!
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03-25-2008, 08:15 AM
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Well...I got up and watched the game this morning (6am start). I hate waking up early!
But...it is baseball.
Both teams were wearing advertising patches on their sleeves.  A Pepsi patch for the Athletics and E=MC(2) for the Sox. AND..."Ricoh" stickers on both teams' batting helmets.
**Brandon Moss just tied the game with a HR in the top of the 9th inning! Woohoo!
In an in-game interview, Bud Selig said "it's great" that people are up early watching baseball on opening day. He's smokin' some bad stuff. It's bad enough that east coasters are up @ 6am and tuning in for baseball...but it's 3am on the west coast! It's stupid. He then went into some spiel about the internationalization of MLB. Apparently his master plan is based on an improvement in air travel. He's either been watching too much science fiction or I couldn't comprehend what was being said because it was too early in the morning!
Selig also complained--at least TWICE--about being tired because of his traveling to Japan. I would think maybe that would give him some kind of clue as to why it might, then, be a bad idea to have the ballplayers make that trip at the beginning fo the season. 
**The game just went to extra innings! Woohoo! Bonus baseball in game #1!
There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!
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03-25-2008, 12:34 PM
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Re: 2008 MLB Thread
It scares me to see the Cubs almost universally predicted to be division champs, especially when:
- Kerry Wood has a good chance of coming up lame, probably at the worst possible time.
- Derrek Lee seems to have lost all of his power.
- The starting rotation has not improved...I don't have much faith that moving Dempster (Dumpster) from closer to starter will change his results.
- Alfonso Soriano has lost his base stealing desire/capability.
- Brian Roberts appears to be the longest awaited non-trade in history.
If we could overcome these obstacles and win the WS in this centennial anniversary of our last title, it would be awesome.
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03-25-2008, 02:46 PM
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I like the Cubs' chances in the NL Central. That's a pretty weak division; the Brewers are the only team that has a chance to compete with the Cubs, and the Cubs have a much better pitching staff. Even if Dempster and Wood turn out poorly, well, that's only complaing about a 4th or 5th starter and a closer (Marmol--lights out last year--could easily take over).
AL: Red Sox -- Tigers -- Angels, WC: Indians
MVP: David Ortiz
Cy Young: Erik Bedard
NL: Mets -- Cubs -- Diamondbacks, WC: Phillies
MVP: David Wright
Cy Young: Santana
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03-25-2008, 02:54 PM
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It scares me to see the Cubs almost universally predicted to be division champs
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I almost feel the same way with the Phillies making the playoffs. Goes to show how weak the NL Central is. I'm going out on a limb, and pick the Brewers to win it this time around.
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Both teams were wearing advertising patches on their sleeves. A Pepsi patch for the Athletics and E=MC(2) for the Sox. AND..."Ricoh" stickers on both teams' batting helmets.
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And their trip to Japan is sponsored by the Travelocity roaming knomes.
My predictions....
NL - Mets, Brewers, Rockies, Phillies (WC)
AL - Red Sox, Tigers, Angels, Indians (WC)
Once again, it will be harder to make the playoffs in the AL than the NL.
And Brad Lidge has just been put on the 15-day DL. Another slow start for the Phillies.
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03-25-2008, 03:05 PM
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FWIW, the extra innings package is free on a lot of cable systems during the first week. YMMV. You have to have a cable box, but many don't realize it and its a great way to enjoy the first week of games....see them all !
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03-25-2008, 03:59 PM
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And their trip to Japan is sponsored by the Travelocity roaming knomes. |
And I just love a good cross-thread reference!
Alex: Thanks for that reminder. It's about the third or fourth one I've had already this spring and I'll probably forget come the weekend! 
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And did I mention that the Red Sox are now on pace to win 162 games this year? And, Manny's on pace to drive in 648 RBIs!  I think that would be a new record. He's also on pace to pose for deep flyballs off the wall 161 more times this season. Amazingly, today, he still managed to end up at second base.
There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!
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03-25-2008, 06:23 PM
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Re: 2008 MLB Thread
Only 11 posts into the new season to hear that 'Manny is still being Manny'
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