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Baseball is starting soon...make your World Series winner pick!

Even though i'm a diehard Braves fan, i'm also a diehard baseball fan and haven't picked the Braves to go very far for the last 3-4 seasons. I actually believe they have a chance to win this year with the addition of Gary Sheffield and Vinny, assuming Gary produces as he always does and Vinny has a solid 20+ homer season like he did in 120 or so games for Houston last year. If last year's andruw jones was a fluke and the braves can get their first basemen to produce, along with Rafael Furcal and Marcus Giles disrupting at the top of the lineup, then the braves have a good chance to win it 🙂 Those are a lot of iff's, but every team is full of iffs. I think that Arizona is too old, the Giants lack the pitching, Houston and the Cardinals both have a chance but wont overtake the braves, and I'm just hoping the Mets faulter and don't make the playoffs because they really scare me 🙂
 
This year is a rebuilding season for the Red Sox, but i guarantee on texmaster's mother's life that they'll finally win their 2nd world series championship next year 😀 I think the outlook is great considering the new owners, the new management, and the addition of some great players to the lineup.
 
Well, I am a Tigers fan. I believe they are already eliminated from post-season play already. 😀

My pick:

Anybody but the Yankees

Braves: I live in Atlanta and am NOT a Braves fan, but I have to admit I like their chances. If Furcal can stay healthy, Giles can produce, and Smoltz pitches well coming out of the bullpen, they have a nice chance. They SUCKED at producing runs last year, and I don't think that will be a problem this year.
 
The Yank's are VERY strong again this year with the addition of Giambi and David Wells.... they can be beat though. They are pretty banged up in spring training and thos guys aren't getting any younger.

I think the Mets, Cardinals and the Braves will be contenders from the NL. The Mets made two nice moves in getting Mo Vaughn and Robbie Alomar in the off-season.

The RedSox are always a threat if Pedro stays healthy ... but they usually die off near the end of the season and give way to the Yanks. The A's should give the Yanks a run as well this year.

I think it'll be Stl Cards vs NY Yanks and the Cards win it all.... that is my EARLY prediction 🙂
 


<< Even though i'm a diehard Braves fan, i'm also a diehard baseball fan and haven't picked the Braves to go very far for the last 3-4 seasons. I actually believe they have a chance to win this year with the addition of Gary Sheffield and Vinny, assuming Gary produces as he always does and Vinny has a solid 20+ homer season like he did in 120 or so games for Houston last year. >>



The Braves are always a good team, but damn, they must make plans for the fall because they always leave the party early. Again, the Braves stocked up on big hitters and forgot about the bullpen. Last year, the only reason you got to the playoffs was Smoltz (I think that was the starter) got injured and then helped out the bullpen to re-hab his arm. Assuming he moves back to the rotation, your once again feeling scared as soon as some runs are put up or the game moves into the 7th or 8th inning.

I don't know all the moves they made, and they might have gotten some bullpen help. But, they have proved just about every year in the 90s that a great starting rotation doesn't net you a championship all that often.

But, I'm a Met fan, so you can understand I don't have the highest regard for the Bravos.
 
"This year is a rebuilding season for the Red Sox"

In regard to the management issue or the players themselves?
 
The Braves had one of the best bullpen's last year... and even though a lot of our key bullpen people left I still like our chances in the postseason with remlinger/smoltz there to close things out. Remlinger was fantastic last year and smoltz is predicted to be a very dominant 30-40+ save closer. Plus it's a lefty/righty combo. So while the bullpen isn't as deep as last year, maybe it wont have to be since our offense has been rejuvinated. I think if the Braves can get average production out of their first basemen slot (20-30 homers, 60-80 RBI, .260 min) and the other players produce then I like the chances. The teams in the NL that scare me are the mets (on paper at least), the cardinals (deep rotation, all around offense if pujols replicates last year), and arizona (again, schilling and johnson is invaluable in a short series in the playoffs).
 


<< This year is a rebuilding season for the Red Sox, but i guarantee on texmaster's mother's life... >>



you do know thats not a hell of a lot, right?

 
Here's the playoff picture:

Yankees east, White Sox central, M's west, a's or indians or red sox wild card. Yankees win AL.

Cards central, Braves east, dbacks west, astros or cubs or mets or giants wild card. Cards win NL.

Cards over Yanks in 7. Man i really don't like the yankees.

(I voted for the astros out of loyalty, but that's a fat frickin' chance)
 
I don't think mariner is going to win it all, but I love to watch them play 🙂
especially that japanese player....mitsubishi...suzuki...er, itchino..eh, yazuka.......AAAAAARRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHH!! damn! can't spell their name 🙁😛
by the way, I pick Yanks 🙂
 
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