The Major League Baseball Playoffs...
 

start on Wednesday, what are your predictions?

National League (Best of 5)

Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs
Milwaukee Brewers vs. Philadelphia Phillies

Cubs beat the Dodgers 3-1
Phillies sweep the Brewers 3-0

American League (Best of 5)

Boston Red Sox vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (aka the CALIFORNIA Angels)
Chicago White Sux/Minnesota Twins* vs. Tampa Bay Rays

Red Sox beat the Angels 3-1

*Depending on who wins the AL Central (I'm pulling for the Tigers tomorrow to BEAT the Sux and shut 'em out of the playoffs)

Tampa sweeps the Sux 3-0 (Ozzie Guillen spontaneously combusts as the last out is made...No need to 'fire' him now)
Tampa beats the Twins 3-2

NLCS (Best of 7)
Cubs beat the Phillies 4-2

ALCS (Best of 7)
Red Sox beat the Rays 4-3

World Series (Best of 7)
Cubs beat the Red Sox 4-1 (The 'curse' and the Red Sox 'dynasty' both END!)

Phillies!!
 

Well, I can't break it down like you do, but I'd like to see the Phillies go all the way & win the World Series. :nod::blob2:

Lee :)

I like the Phillies...
 

but I love my Cubs.

I think the Phillies have the best offense right now that could carry them to the World Series, but I worry about their pitching.

Hey, At least the Mets didnt make it (Collapse #2 for the second year in a row) thanks to the mighty Marlins!!! :thumbsup:

Cubs beat the Dodgers
Phillies beat the Brewers
Cubs beat the Phillies

Angels beat the Red Sox
Rays beat the Twins (ya heard it hear first-White Sox lose to the Tigers monday)
Rays beat the Angels

Cubs beat the Rays

That's the White Sox. Thanks. No need for poor sportsmanship.

^^^Cubs diehards cant be sporty to that other team across town...Nor do they care for us either, which is fine (Rather lose a World Series fair and square to a better team instead of THROW one, Right 'Shoeless Joe'? :D )

I have ZERO respect for a team whose fans run onto the field and attack an opposing teams first base coach, I'd rather cheer for the CLASS-ACT Cards (A great rival) than the team that plays in the (Appropriate named) "The Cell" (Wow, what irony that their uniforms are Prisoner faves Black & White)



And once more, for the baseball purists...
Comiskey Park=Home of Disco Demolition Night
Late 70's/Early 80's White Sux uniforms = Pajamas or Softball uniforms...I still cant tell :lol:
Ken "the CROCK" Harrelson = The WORST TV announcer in MLB - Under his GMing stint in 86 fired Tony LaRussa, who was hired by the A's and led Oakland to 3 AL pennants (When the CROCK took over I QUIT being a Sox fan and because a SUX hater..."And he can shove that up his BOARD, YES!")

Perhaps you should relax. I don't hate the Cubs, in fact I even live on the North Side. I also have friends who are Cubs fans and can resort to discussing the game rather than name calling. I've been to many Cubs and Sox games, bad behavior is not limited to Sox fans. It's fans like you who are just plain mean-spirited that ruin the experience for everyone.

The fact that your are judging a whole group of people based on what sports team they root for seems a little sad.

^^^
I am relaxed, I just like to rib the SUX fans the same way they rib us "Lovable Losers" :D (Similar to the way Yankees and Mets fans rip one another - Not mean spirited as much as showing true blue loyalty)

I live in Oklahoma, and when the SUX played a pre-season game here this spring (At the Bricktown Ballpark) they were BOOED out of the stadium - You think I tough on 'em, you aint seen nothing then (OKC is currently a Texas Rangers city due to the affiliation with the Oklahoma Redhawks, formerly a Cleveland Indians affiliate...We know HOW much those Southsiders LOVE the Injuns)

Hey, Look at it this way, If the SUX had to play the Braves (TBS=The Braves Suck) in the World Series, I cheer for the SUX because at LEAST they dont self-proclaim themselves as "America's Team" (Which I say is the Yankees)

If the Braves are "America's Team", I'd cheer for whoever ISNT...I'd say the Expos, but they no longer exist in Montreal since becoming the Nats of D.C. :lol:

Progress, I guess. Of course I'm sitting here watching WGN on rain delay waiting for the game to start.

I actually think America's team is the Cubs. I think the Yankees lost their good will a while back.

I dont think...
 

the Cubs are America's team, even though I am a fan I will admit that...currently I would say "America's Team" would be the Red Sox. Sure isnt the Braves...With the new contract between MLB & TBS the Braves lost that outlet

The Yankees lost it in my eyes by firing/releasing Joe Torre (Yanks loss was the Dodgers again) - leave it to Steinbrenner to fire/release/whatever a class act manager who WON the whole time with the Yanks. But that's alright, been a Dodger's fan for years.

I would cheer for the White SOX only if they had to play the Braves or even worse, the Reds in a World Series.

Good luck with the game today...if the rain lets up.

No Roctober this year.... :distress: Season is done.

Phillies 2 games up now:thumbsup: Hamels and Myers both pitched great in the first 2 games. Hopefully old man Moyer can do same on Saturday.

Another year...another Cubs collapse - Big surprise :shrug:

I think a Phillies vs. Dodgers NLCS will favor the Phillies offense & pitching.

Atleast Phillies would have home field advantage. We played terrible in LA this year.Dodgers swept us in LA and we swept them in Philly

:sorry: but it RED October!

GO PHILLIES!! :blob2::blob2:

Lee :)

^^^
Well, FLOP-tober is over for the Cubs yet again...Big shock, huh? Can't blame Uncle Lou for this collapse, No offense equals another #$%^&* year about hearing about "The Curse"

Tell ya what, The Dodgers looked impressive to say the least...Whoever plays 'em in the NLCS BETTER have a plan to stop that team. Betcha the Yanks fans WISHED Joe Torre was still in NYC, LOL!!!!

I would like to see a Dodgers/Red Sox World Series...Betcha the Red Sox fans would just so enjoy seeing Manny beatin' 'em.

Epic fail. :o

Dodgers are going down in NLCS

Did I say this before...
 

GOOOOOO PHILLIES!!!!

At least we Philly fans have them to cheer about because the Eagles aren't going anywhere this year.:(

Lee :)

That eagles game pissed me off today but the Phils cheered me up

I thought...
 

that only applied to the Rockies in last years World Series sweep at the hand of the Red Sox... :shrug:

But I guess it applies to the FLOP-tober collapse of the Cubs...and possibly the Angels (Who haven't beat the Red Sox in 11 straight games of the playoffs dating back to 1986) starting in about 10 minutes.

Congrats to the White Sox, at least they are making a series of it against the Rays.



I'm a TRUE Cubs fan...I will stick with my team THROUGHOUT it all, and if it takes another 100 years to win the World Series, so be it...

At least I can PROUDLY predict the Cubs will win the World Series before I EVER TRUST anyone in WASHINGTON D.C.

What a weekend here in Chitown. I still don't get how they lost both games at home, too much hype too early, I guess. I'm actually hoping this will eliminate some of the fairweather Cubs fans for you true fans. Those that go to games to look cool at Wrigley, and don't appear to actually know anything about baseball. They drive me nuts on the L on game days.

White Sox game starts at 4:07 today, where's Steve Perry? ;) "Don't stop believing":blob1:

I'm prediticting an American League World Series win, no matter which teams ends up going.

I predict...
 

RAYS all the way!!:blob1:

World Series I predict Phillies over Rays 4 games to 1

I Hate...
 

fairweather fans, or even worse "bandwagon jumpers". I guarantee HAD the Cubs won the World Series there would be So Many fans coming out to say "I'm a Cubs fan"...Yeah, sure ya are.

I have been bleeding Cub blue since my hometown Muskogee, OK added WGN to the cable TV package WAY BACK in 1982.

There sure have been alot of 'fairweather' fans at the games at the Cell and in Tampa, since during regular the season games I saw more empty seats than fans at games for both team. But I will give 'em both the benefit of the doubt since no one, I repeat, NO ONE was ever worse than the Atlanta Braves fans at showing up at the last minute ONLY if their team made the playoffs...Otherwise the Braves fans at Turner Field were disguised as empty seats :lol:

I have to say great pitching teams have, and WILL FOREVER MORE, beat great hitting teams...I say the National League has that advantage this year (ie Dodgers starting pitching staff). Should be a fun World Series this year (Still NONE will top the 2001 Yanks vs. D-Backs Series, the best one in my opinion).

For the record, I hate the DH!!! If a pitcher drills an opposing player in the AL, he wont have to suffer a payback...Crapola!! Make him hit and drill him back!!!



The White Sox are joining the Cubs for "Tee Time" in the morning (About 7:30am CST :D ) somewhere in Chicago.

Rays win...
 

beat ChiSox 6-2 to advance. Woo hoo!!:]

We're all set now...

The ALCS (The BoSox better watch out, The Rays may continue to shock the world)
The NLCS (Great LA pitching vs. the great Phillies hitting)

Hey, I like all 4 teams so I will be enjoying these LCS' :nod:

Hopefully Hamels, Myers and Blanton all continue to pitch well. and Moyer needs to start pitching like Moyer again

The Rays are a very good team. I still don't understand what the big deal was about being the Devil Rays. Anyway all is quiet in Chicago, and the only thing left to say is Go Bears!:cool:

Which thrilled me since I was born and raised in Pawtucket...Watching the Rox in the WS last year was like watching the Paw Sox play the Red Sox. I's so glad to see my boys doing it again this year.

Well, on the one hand I was dissapointed to see the Twins lose the playoff game to the White SOx, but very pleased to see them get eliminated by the Rays. And my Red Sox finished off the Angels last night. Thanks in no slamm part to the missed squeeze bunt by the Angels in the top of the ninth. BRING ON THE RAYS!

It'll be a Dodgers/Red Sox World Series. Dodgers win in 6.

Manny gets back at the Red Sox, Torre thumbs his nose at the Yankees.

Oh...and the "Red Sox did not finish off the Angels"...the Angels finished THEMSELVES off. 100 wins and they STILL get beat by a wild card team and f-up my dream of an all SoCal World Series.

The Los Angeles Asswipes of Anaheim. At the Major League level of play, you don't hang your baserunner out to dry on a suicide squeeze. Aybar should be sent back to PeeWee League to have a refresher course in baseball fundamentals. Or better yet...traded to the Mariners.

I'm guessing...
 

the relig-a-tarded are paranoid of the word "Devil". I already heard they are campaigning to have the word devil removed from "Deviled Ham" and "Deviled Eggs".


Ya left out "Go Blackhawks", who are SO going to get slaughtered at Wrigley this coming winter, when they play my beloved (And current NHL Champs) Red Wings in the annual "NHL Classic" game.

I like...
 

the Dodgers/Red Sox Series myself...have to root for the Dodgers (NO frikkin' DH in the NL). I see the Dodgers shocking the world as they did 20 years ago when they destroyed the A's (Two words that haunt the A's fans, Kirk Gibson!!! - The last great SoCal World Series).

I grew up in a household that rooted for one of two National League teams during the 70's, either you liked the Reds or ya liked the Dodgers, I'm sure as hell NOT a Reds fan (My Mom was...So much that when I picked the A's to beat her Reds in the 1990 World Series, and the Reds swept the A's in 4 games, My Mom called me on the phone long distance as soon as the last out was made and said only one sentence to me then hung up on my ass, "Your team sucked!")

Manny already SLAMMED the Red Sox immediately after the Dodgers win over my Cubs, When asked what he had to say to the Red Sox fans if his Dodgers were to face 'em in the Series - Manny looked in the camera, took a second for his answer, laughed directly at the camera and said sarcastically "Nothing" :D

That "suicide squeeze" was hilarious...It made the Angels look bad when it blew up in their face, I died laughing when Mike Scioscia flew out of the dugout to dispute the call (Which was correct and replay showed the out was made BEFORE the ball was dropped from the glove). Definitely the "suicide" part was the only part of "suicide squeeze" that worked.

The GREAT thing about a Rays/Red Sox playoffs...Watched a baseball game and HOCKEY fight broke out!!!

2 games up :]:blob1::thumbsup: unfortunately it was on a day Charlie Manuals mother passed away and Shane Victorinos grandmother passed away.

The Sox thought they would bury the Rays...Didnt happen did it? The Rays DESTROYED Beckett and this series is getting very entertaining.

Eh, the Red Sox have Lester going in game 3. They should take control again on Monday.:nod:

Moyer has been terrible this postseason. He lasted 1.1 innings last night. hopefully Blanton pitches well tonight then Hamels can put this series away on Wednesday

Lester...
 

is getting shelled in this game, 5-0 in only the top of the 3rd.

Yeah I'm watching. UGH I'm not very happy right now!