MLB: Predicting the Championship Series
Posted on | October 8, 2008 | No Comments
No baseball today. Uggggghhhhh.
Oh well, that gives us a chance to take a look at both match-ups and to try to work out which two teams will wind-up in the playoffs.
First, let’s take a look at the series that will kickoff on Thursday: The Los Angeles Dodgers visiting the Philadelphia Phillies.
And before we get too deep into this thing, let’s get one thing straight… since Philadelphia booed Santa, they have won nothing in any major sport. Call it the “Santa Curse”. Good ole St. Nick isn’t someone you want to mess with.
With that being said, I’m going with the Dodgers because they have deeper pitching, a better manager, and the best hitter in the game today, Manny Ramirez. Make no mistake about it: Manny will be Manny and that means he will go yard in Game One, he will go yard at least three times in this series, and he will hit over .400.
However, I do like Hamels on the mound for the Phillies. He will be enough to get this to go six games but no further.
Now, for the American League. No such thing as a “Santa Curse” here but there is a little thing dealing with the Devil. See, no one wants to talk about that these Rays are winners and always have been. It was the DEVIL Rays who were the losers. Am I right?
So, expect the Rays to advance here too. But also expect it to be a war.
We’re talking seven games here and maybe extras in the seventh game. Perhaps Even Longoria goes yard to lead off the thirteenth inning in Game Seven in front of a – gasp – sold out Tropicana Field.
Well, that would be something, wouldn’t it? I mean the sold out part… not the Longoria thing. Longoria is crazy good and nothing should be looked at as being impossible with him.
So that would give us the Rays and the Dodgers in the playoffs. And all Yankee fans would hate it because Torre is succeeding without them and all Red Sox would hate it because Manny would be in the World Series.
Related posts:
- MLB: Championship Series are all Set
- MLB: Two Big Series to Start July
- MLB: Preparing for the World Series
- MLB: Predicting the Second Half of the Season
- MLB: Phillies Celebrate, Rays Wait
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