MAKE A BOLD PREDICTION

2. Tigers finish third, Pudge ascends to Mount Olympus.

3. ALCS and NLCS teams are all different this year than last.

Sorry, that's not a prediction.

..and I've got more!

Differ, I made that Tigers crack more because I could than because I believed it. It was wrong, but it felt good.

Barry plays 100 or less:(

The funny thing is other than the uniforms, there isn't much difference as the Reds are mostly filled with AAA players.

also david, i'm going to argue that it's not a cliche in this context because OTHER PEOPLE DON'T MEAN IT (usually - do they?)

Y'know, I just realized that Differ thought my "that's not a prediction" comment was directed at the "Tigers in 3rd" prediction, when I actually meant to direct it at my snarky rejoinder. This is just to say when it comes to baseball, acting smart & quippy comes before thinking of my fellow man.

Yet somehow still wins the NL Homerun Crown with 52.

Cubs win series

I was feelin' the Tigers and you all scoffed, popshots you owe me a beer

Richard Hidalgo will bat .400.

yankees fire vasquez, lieber, mussina, heredia, contreras, and gordon and then make trade deadline deals for randy johnson, greg maddux, armando benitez, jose mesa, mike hampton, and david wells.

man am i bitter today.

But the dream is still alive. He is currently at .400 on the dot.

Willis has secoind-half jitters again but still wins 20.

Joe Morgan will bemoan Oakland's inability to "manufacture runs" even as they win their first postseason series in October.

I swear ESPN's hiring policy for baseball analysts & color commentators (in regards to former players) is to make Morgan seem godlike, and to make HR seem like Joe Morgan. And I swear that, come August, I will stop obsessing over ESPN's baseball analysts, except for Peter Gammons, because he's rad.

1) The Mariners will finish in last place
2) The AL Central winner will finish with a sub-.500 record
3) Ken Griffey Jr. & Randy Johnson will retire
4) Milwaukee will finish ahead of St. Louis
5) San Diego will (finally!) win the NL West
6) A-Rod will play less than 120 games
7) Carlos Beltran will NOT be traded

Wow, my predictions sucked.

okay my third one sucked but it was bold. the other two I've bolded. if A-Rod hits a slump Pudge should be MVP at this point, and Pettite is having arm trouble, so I AM:PROGNOSTICATOR.

NL wild card comes from the West.

Rockies pitchers to dominate opposing hitters at Coors. Shawn Estes to win 20 games.

The Luckiest Pitcher in the Universe is on target for win #16 today...

-- cinniblount (littlejohnnyjewe...), February 23rd, 2004 4:24 PM. (James Blount)

behold

(as a Beane/Epstein fan, I obviously hope I'm wrong)

2004 Playoffs Thread

Not specific to 2004, but:

I've been carefully reading over a book I published in 2014, fixing up small errors so I can reupload it to Kindle. Came across this, something I wrote about Jose Cruz Jr. in a Wallflowers fanzine comment in 1997 where I compared Jakob Dylan to a bunch of sons from father-and-son baseball duos:

...it’s still way too early to say much about Cruz, but my conservative guess is that he’ll hit upwards of 250 home runs in his career--I’d say there’s a better chance that he’ll hit a lot more than 250 than a lot fewer.

He was a 23-year-old rookie in 1997--bold prediction! He ended up hitting 204 for his career, so not bad--definitely not a lot more than 250, but I wouldn't call that a lot fewer, either.