Go Crazy Folks, Go Crazy...
How do you choose a winner when you want to see them both lose?
As an Astros fan, I'm not supposed to like our division rival St. Louis Cardinals. After the run-around Scott Boras gave Astros management in the Carlos Beltran contract negotiations, I want to see the Mets lose, as well. What's a 'stros fan to do?
Since the Cardinals and Astros share the Central Division, a Mets loss makes our division stronger. To top it off, Carlos Beltran gets the last out of the NLCS. I'll take that.
Going against my own logic, I'm pulling for the Tigers to win the World Series.
What a strange year in baseball. Kenny Rogers leads a young staff in Detroit to a winning season (nevermind a World Series birth), the Cardinals record since the All-Star break was below .500 and they nearly bear the largest collapse in baseball history, the Boston Red Sox finish third in the AL East, and the Cincinnati Reds compete for a playoff spot for the majority of the season.
With the drastic turnaround the Detroit Tigers constructed this season, don't laugh next year when preseason predictions have the Rockies and Devil Rays in the World Series.
Who would have expected Jeff Suppan to finish two games with an ERA of 0.60, and Jeff Weaver to be the stud pitcher for the Cardinals and make up for Chris Carpenter's shortcomings? Of course Albert Pujols lights up the offense, but how about Yadier Molina offering help with the stick?
But all of it no longer matters as the Cardinals prepare to take on the Tigers in the 2006 Fall Classic. How's this for a prediction: Tigers sweep the Cards.
Here's my rational: Tony LaRussa has managed in four World Series.
• 1988 - Oakland was swept by the Dodgers after Kirk Gibson's walk-off home run in game one.
• 1989 - Oakland sweeps the Giants after the California earthquake postpones the series.
• 1990 - Oakland, again, was swept by the Cincinnati Reds.
• 2004 - The Red Sox erase the curse by sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals.
Not to mention, the Tigers are coming off a 4-game sweep of the A's in the ALDS.
Joel Zamaya vs. Albert Pujols. Jim Leyland vs. Tony LaRussa. Chris Carpenter vs. a 'red hot' Placido Polanco. While I wish it were the Astros, it's still October baseball.
Some of us really do live for this.
As an Astros fan, I'm not supposed to like our division rival St. Louis Cardinals. After the run-around Scott Boras gave Astros management in the Carlos Beltran contract negotiations, I want to see the Mets lose, as well. What's a 'stros fan to do?
Since the Cardinals and Astros share the Central Division, a Mets loss makes our division stronger. To top it off, Carlos Beltran gets the last out of the NLCS. I'll take that.
Going against my own logic, I'm pulling for the Tigers to win the World Series.
What a strange year in baseball. Kenny Rogers leads a young staff in Detroit to a winning season (nevermind a World Series birth), the Cardinals record since the All-Star break was below .500 and they nearly bear the largest collapse in baseball history, the Boston Red Sox finish third in the AL East, and the Cincinnati Reds compete for a playoff spot for the majority of the season.
With the drastic turnaround the Detroit Tigers constructed this season, don't laugh next year when preseason predictions have the Rockies and Devil Rays in the World Series.
Who would have expected Jeff Suppan to finish two games with an ERA of 0.60, and Jeff Weaver to be the stud pitcher for the Cardinals and make up for Chris Carpenter's shortcomings? Of course Albert Pujols lights up the offense, but how about Yadier Molina offering help with the stick?
But all of it no longer matters as the Cardinals prepare to take on the Tigers in the 2006 Fall Classic. How's this for a prediction: Tigers sweep the Cards.
Here's my rational: Tony LaRussa has managed in four World Series.
• 1988 - Oakland was swept by the Dodgers after Kirk Gibson's walk-off home run in game one.
• 1989 - Oakland sweeps the Giants after the California earthquake postpones the series.
• 1990 - Oakland, again, was swept by the Cincinnati Reds.
• 2004 - The Red Sox erase the curse by sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals.
Not to mention, the Tigers are coming off a 4-game sweep of the A's in the ALDS.
Joel Zamaya vs. Albert Pujols. Jim Leyland vs. Tony LaRussa. Chris Carpenter vs. a 'red hot' Placido Polanco. While I wish it were the Astros, it's still October baseball.
Some of us really do live for this.
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