ALDS
Texas over Tampa Bay
Minnesota over New York

NLDS
Cincinnati over Philadelphia
San Francisco over Atlanta

ALCS
Texas over Minnesota

NLCS
Cincinnati over San Fransisco

World Series
Cincinnati Reds over Texas Rangers

erics phillies shit in your mouth.

^^^^ They sure did, 4 fucking errors in 1 game! That's a Hall of Fame fail.

National League
East - Phils
Central - Reds
West - Giants
WC - Brewers

Reds beat Giants and Phils, go to WS

American League
East - Red Sox
Central - White Sox
West - Rangers
WC - Yankees

Red Sox beat Rangers and Yankees, go to WS

2011 World Series, Reds over Red Sox in 7

^ That's pretty lulzy Chuck !

AL MVP: A Rod
Al Cy Young: Clay Bucholz

NL MVP: Jason Heyward (if you don't pick Pujols, you might as well reach)
NL Cy Young: Cliff Lee

However the playoffs go, Phillies/Yankees World Series, Phillies win.

Another prediction, by the time the trading deadline passes, the Mets will have given away anyone on the team, besides Wright, that they can for a bag of balls and a used jock. I look at their roster and wonder how that team costs over 100million. Wouldn't surprise me if they ate half Bay's contract just to save the spare change.

biased here but the sox should win the al, then it's a matter of who's healthier between the phils and their pitching staff. sounds like utley's already having health probs, and i think the sox are better offensively to start with, wear down weak starters better, strike out less and youk and while nobody's as pure a power hitter as howard, youk and adrian are scarier, crawford's got a better combo of speed/hit than rollins, petey's better than chase and so on. if any of their starters isn't 100% they're fucked.

Early season thoughts after looking over the standings.

How bout them Rays? Lose Pena, Soriano, Crawford, and Garza, and they are still at the top of the division. Shows what can be done building through the draft.

Yankees need to trade for a starter.

Boston will get on a hot streak some time, question is do Yanks or Rays go into a long slump.

Indians & Royals...WOW. That division is probably upside down from what most thought.

Phillies get Utley back, and he plays to his potential, they gonna be scary good. Imagine if they dump Rollins and pick up Reyes in the off season.

Earlier in the week the Royals won a series at Yankee Stadium for the first time since 1999. I can't believe their starting rotation is going to hold up come July and August (the most dependable pitcher in their rotation is fucking Bruce Chen) but if their young starters in Double and Triple A are as good as advertised they could be the surprise team in the league in the next couple of years.

Also, I can't wait to see Bryce Harper play ball. Guy is supposed to be a non junkie Josh Hamilton. He's killing it in class A. If I'm the Nats, I bring him up by the All Star break, just to sell tickets. If you can spend 120 mill on Werth, you can't be worried about when this guy hits arbitration.

AL:
Detroit over Oakland
NYY over Baltimore

Detroit over NYY

NL:
Cincy over SF
DC over St.L.

Cincy over DC

World Series:
Cincinnati over Detroit

How's it going Chuck?

I can't say I disagree with your predictions. I haven't seen enough of Cincy and Wash. to offer an opinion. I can't imagine Wash. not putting Strasberg out there for the Championship Series though.

My Yankees have too many guys that make their yearly stats against bad pitching, and therefore wilt against good pitchers in the post season. I'm looking at you 2, Swisher and Tex. Detroit sending them packing again wouldn't be surprising. Of course, Iciro, Jeter and Cano could be the new version of Raines, Jeter, Williams, who wrecked relief pitchers on their way to the title.

What do you think about AL MVP: Cabrera or Trout? You got a place in your heart for the Alkie making good, huh? Imagine if Cabrera wasn't a drunk, this could be his second or 3rd Triple Crown.

Matter of fact, lemme see your post season ballot, if you had a vote.

Triple Crown = MVP
Verlander for Cy Young


Braun for MVP
Dickey for Cy Young

He better win, otherwise it ruins the ending for the eventual movie. Pitching with a torn abdominal muscle all season will make for great tension in the movie. I'm picking a chubbed up Matthew Mcconaughey to play RA Dickey. It'll be his Oscar role.

AL Cy Young is going to be close. Price and Weaver both won 20, Verlander led the league in Ks.

NL MVP probably should be Braun, but I think last year's hot piss test might cost him and swing people to Posey.

Cabrera and Dickey should run away with their awards. If Cabrera isn't unanimous, then people should get their votes revoked.

I don't think playing in NYC is going to hurt Dickey. It is still shitty that he got snubbed to start the All Star game.

Dickey was clearly the story of the first half as far as pitchers go, but it might be that they didn't want to embarass the starting catcher. Some guys just can't catch a knuckler. I don't remember how it all went down as far as replacements go and when they came in, but the manager might have had to take that into consideration. Also, I think early on, people weren't quite ready to believe he was as good as he actually was this season. Like maybe he might fall apart with a horrible start at any moment.

Matt Cain pitching a no hitter entered into it, although I think the fact Dickey threw 2 one hitters and walked next to no one should have put him over the top for the start.

I hope the Mets sign him long term and he keeps pitching well. I love seeing the knuckle ball. Also, he would be a perfect complement to the young fireballers the Mets are supposed to have.

Lots of things to cover from previous posts here.

1. Buster Olney from ESPN made the same World Series prediction that Charin made.

2. Cabrera should win the MVP but don't be surprised if Trout wins. A lot of the voters today are sabermetric nerds who discount any stat that does not have a decimal point in it.

3. I would give the Cy Young to Dickey and Price. Tampa had an absolute crap offense this year. Put Cabrera and Fielder in Tampa's lineup this year and Price probably wins 25.

4. I have no clue who gets the NL MVP. Whoever it is would probably finish about 5th if they were in the AL.

Braves should feel drenched this morning. They got hosed last night !

BDM you are correct. That was a worse call than the GB/Seattle Hail Mary play.

I fucking hate those sabermetric nerds. SI got rid of Posnanski, now they have to get Verducci out of there. When ever I try to read one of his columns, I get sick and wind up emailing him telling him that he is a douche.

The rule needs to be changed. If the infield fly is called the player should have to catch it for it to be an out. If he drops it whether unintentionally or intentionally or the ball drops like it did last night then all hands are safe. The ball is dead. One base for each runner. The whole thing would hinge on calling it an infield fly and being caught.

Holy Shit! I just saw Verducci interview Bronson Arroyo. SI should really make their writers update their head shots every decade or 2.

Reds just never got the offense going. I now predict a repeat of 1968 WS.

I predict a repeat of the 2006 World Series.

I predict a preview of the 2038 World Series.

Tonight looks like a reenactment of game seven of the 1985 World Series. The only thing missing is Kyle Losch punching an electric fan in the dugout.