The Major League Baseball Playoffs...

estranged4life · #1 09-28-2008, 04:31 PM

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!)

Lee · #2 09-28-2008, 04:53 PM

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.

Lee

estranged4life · #3 09-28-2008, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee

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.

Lee

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!!!

dcl1964 · #4 09-28-2008, 08:59 PM

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

Erin · #5 09-28-2008, 09:10 PM

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

estranged4life · #6 09-28-2008, 09:24 PM

^^^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'?

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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

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!")

Erin · #7 09-28-2008, 10:56 PM

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.

estranged4life · #8 09-28-2008, 11:07 PM

^^^
I am relaxed, I just like to rib the SUX fans the same way they rib us "Lovable Losers"

(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.

Erin · #9 09-29-2008, 01:26 PM

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.

estranged4life · #10 09-29-2008, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Erin

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

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.