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 Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Baseball Playoff Predicitons...post 'em here |
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| FragFailure wrote: | Here's my playoff predictions and why
ALDS
NY Yankees vs Minnesota
Yankees sweep in three. Minnesota is cursed against them. Any other team could easily upset the Yankees in the ALDS. The White Sox would have given the Yanks a better run for their money and possibly beat them.
Boston vs Oakland
I think Boston will win in four. Pedro will win game 1 and whoever will lose game 2. Boston sweeps the two games at Fenway. I'll give credit to the A's for winning the west. The trends say that Oakland losing in round one is as solid as Atlanta not winning the World Series.
NLDS
Florida vs San Francisco
Florida will upset the Giants in game 1. San Fran will get serious and put the hurtin' on Florida the next three games.
Houston or Chicago Cubs can still win the NL central. So I'll put up a scenario for each.
Houston vs Atlanta
Atlanta owns Houston. Houston chokes in the playoffs everytime. Neither Bagwell or Biggio have a career playoff average over .225. Unless Oswalt and Miller display their "A" games, then Atlanta sweeps Houston in three.
Chicago vs Atlanta
The Cubs are a matchup nightmare for Atlanta. This is the type of team that Atlanta could get upset by. Atlanta owns Houston. They have a much tougher time with the Cubs. Prior, Wood, Zambrano and Clement vs. Maddux, Ortiz, Hampton and washed up Shane Reynolds. If the Cubs bats get hot, look out. The Cubs will pull off the upset of Atlanta and win in five. They will win game five on the road where Turner Field will have at least 25% Cub fans.
ALCS
Boston vs NY Yankees
Well this is the matchup that all the BoSox and Yankee fans want. To me Boston is the better team. However, it is the Yankees and it is the curse of the Bambino. It's Buckner going five hole in '86. However, the Bronx Bombers have had two disasters in the last two years themselves (see Luis Gonzalez and the Rally Monkey.) Is this year different? I say yes it is. Fate has to smile on the BoSox nation just one time and I feel this year is different. I feel that the Yankees pitching is old and hanging on by a thread. You can talk about the bad BoSox bullpen all you want. GM Theo Epstein went out and kept making moves for relief pitching. You think NY feels safe with the way Gabe White, Chris Hammond and Jeff Nelson have been pitching? The only situation that has the Yankees advancing would be two blown saves by Byung Hung Kim. Otherwise Boston gets home field as they take out the bombers in six. Somewhere Dahak passes out when Boston gets by New York.
ALCS MVP: Trot Nixon who will pound Yankee pitching
NLCS
Atlanta/Chicago vs San Fran
In the scenario that Houston plays Atlanta. Atlanta will advance and play San Francisco. The Giants have better pitching, speed and defense. The Braves got the bats. I think this is San Fran's year and will make it past the Braves in six.
The Cubs will also fall in six (maybe seven.) This series will be much more exciting and closer in score than an Atlanta/SF NLCS. The Cubs aren't ready this year. The Cubs will break the trend next year of never having two winning seasons in a row. The Cubs will go on to be the dominant NL team for the next five years if they keep their starting pitching intact. That is a White Sox fan saying that...again.
NLCS MVP: Jason Schmidt
World Series
San Francisco vs Boston
I would be pulling for Boston although SF winning won't pain me either. I'd predict Boston, but I refuse to put the curse on them by predicting them. I'm going to predict SF wins a painful game seven in Fenway when Marquis Grissom gets the game winning hit off of Byung Hung Kim in the 10th inning. It will be remembered as a great fall classic as Barry Bonds gets his long awaited World Series ring.
World Series MVP: Barry Bonds hits .380 with 3 HR's and 11 walks in the series.
Anyone got any other predictions? |
Rawr! You goddamn hacker!
Me? Well, being the New Yorker, I have been a Yankees fan since before I was born. However, I feel so bad for the Cubs I might just root for them if the two meet. Until then I will root for both teams.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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lol my stupid bad how in the hell did I forget Jordan and Da Bulls 
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I kinda want oakland to at least get to semi finals... But if Yanks win again, I will be very pissed. It isn't as fun when the same team wins year after year. (Although the Cowboys stomping the Bills and Steelers was cool)
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