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All right you people, it's time to talk actual baseball again. It's pennant race time! No steroid/HGH/cheating talk in this thread. Keep that stuff in the other MLB thread, where it belongs which has been sadly tainted by such talk. :hmm

 

I think five of the six eventual division winners are currently ensconced in their rightful places. To my mind, only the NL Central is still up for grabs, and my pick to take the division, the Cardinals, haven't really looked like they want it over the last few games. The Cubs are faltering, the Brewers are surging, but will it stay that way? I just don't know.

 

I hate to say it, but I think the Jankees are going to sew up the Wildcard, damn them. I also have a feeling that the Phillies might claw their way to the NL spot.

 

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I was at the Fri and Sat Tiger/Mariner games.

We looked good. Timo Perez was hitting like Tony Perez. Granderson played like baseball's next superstar. I thought, if he stays a Tiger for his career, he will become this generations Al Kaline, Alan Trammel . . .

Then Bonderman goes out and gets crushed and lost for the remainder of the year. Injuries have killed us this year. Momentum has been impossible to generate since the all-star break.

 

Sadly, I agree that the Yankees appear to have th wild card, even though their pitching is terrible.

 

I look for a great championship series between the Red Sox and Angels.

 

NL - I have no clue what will happen.

 

This is the best sports time of year. Baseball pennant races!!!

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Sadly, I agree that the Yankees appear to have th wild card, even though their pitching is terrible.

 

I look for a great championship series between the Red Sox and Angels.

 

I'm pretty happy with the Yankees pitching. Wang (like Beckett) is 18-6. Pettite is always solid, especially after losses. His record is not great and he is obviously vastly overpaid, but, if healthy, I always feel comfortable with Clemens. Also, they have some decent young starters in Hughes and Kennedy. As for the bullpen, well, there's Joba and Mo. Is there a better 1-2, 8th and 9th inning combo in baseball? Okajima and Papelbon are admittedly very good, but I'd still take Joba and Mo.

 

I know the Yankees are the George W. Bush of baseball in terms of popularity around here, but don't dismiss them. Wild Card teams tend to do pretty well. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Yankees in the ALCS and beyond.

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I know the Yankees are the George W. Bush of baseball in terms of popularity around here, but don't dismiss them. Wild Card teams tend to do pretty well. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Yankees in the ALCS and beyond.

I don't think anyone has dismissed them. They are always a threat to the division. They've been playing decent ball the last month or so but the fact that Detroit and Seattle have been playing terribly has obviously helped them greatly for the WC slot. Moreso than their suspect pitching.

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1. I think the AL playoffs will be a classic this year, with Boston edging out the Los Angeles Angels of Californication/Anaheim.

2. I am not banking on the Mets to win the World Series.

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I don't think anyone has dismissed them. They are always a threat to the division. They've been playing decent ball the last month or so but the fact that Detroit and Seattle have been playing terribly has obviously helped them greatly for the WC slot. Moreso than their suspect pitching.

 

I'm probably being hypersensitive, but I take the predictions of a Red Sox-Angels ALCS as a dismissal of the Yankees.

 

I don't consider the Yankees pitching to be any more suspect than any other teams. Wang, Pettite, Clemens, Vizcaino, Chamberlain, Rivera - that's enough. A-Rod's bat will fill any holes.

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I'm probably being hypersensitive, but I take the predictions of a Red Sox-Angels ALCS as a dismissal of the Yankees.

Hey, that was posted after your post, though. Personally, I live in enough fear of the NYY to not consider them non-contenders until they're mathematically eliminated.

 

Pitching has been their Achille's heel for most of the season. Joba and the other young guys they've brought up have added strength to their bullpen, but Clemns and Mussina are banged up and not as effective as they were hoped to be this year.

 

ed. And Arod's bat in the post-season. Ummm...

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I know about A-Rod's post-season history, but, if the Yankees are fortunate enough to make the play-offs, I expect the guy to deliver. He is so locked in this year. Additionally, it's really only 2005 and 2006 that he's been a post-season dud. He put up good numbers with Seattle in the play-offs, and in 2004 he carried the Yankees against the Twins and even hit a few bombs against the Red Sox before the whole thing went to shit. After the Detroit series last year and the accompanying uproar, I expected him to be a total head case and perform like crap this year but instead he's been great. I expect it to continue.

 

There was a post before mine predicting a great Sox-Angels ALCS - from Leo, I think. He also said the Yankees pitching was terrible. I'm very sensitive.

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There was a post before mine predicting a great Sox-Angels ALCS - from Leo, I think. He also said the Yankees pitching was terrible. I'm very sensitive.

So, no one's supposed to predict an ALCS without the Yankees? :huh

 

For much of this year, the Yankees' pitching was terrible. It's not unreasonable to argue that it still is terrible.

 

An overly sensitive Yankees fan ... isn't that an oxymoron?

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So, no one's supposed to predict an ALCS without the Yankees? :huh

 

For much of this year, the Yankees' pitching was terrible. It's not unreasonable to argue that it still is terrible.

 

An overly sensitive Yankees fan ... isn't that an oxymoron?

 

I don't mind predictions, I just don't want anyone to think a Sox-Angels ALCS is a foregone conclusion. Basically I'm just trying to stick up for my team.

 

If the Yankees pitching is so terrible why are they 4 games up in the WC? Why are they only 5-1/2 behind the Sox? Why have they been able to take 8 of the last 11 from the Sox this year? I'm not trying to be an a-hole, but the Yankees pitching is nowhere as near as bad as people are trying to make it out to be. If anything, the offense has been more of a problem. For the first half of the season only A-Rod, Jeter and Posada hit. They got nothing from Melky, Abreu, Damon, Matsui and Cano. Thankfully, that has changed.

 

I actually like the fact the Yankees are being overlooked. I know I overlooked the Tigers last year and look how things turned out. Again, I don't want to be an a-hole, but I just have a feeling about this team. It would be a perfect script. Everyone counted them out when they were 14-1/2 behind and yet, somehow, they win their 27th championship. Who knows? Anything can happen in October. I just feel good about this team.

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