As a way of introduction, my name is Lank and I'm a big fan of the 2011 Cactus League World Champion Kansas City Royals. As we like to say in Championshipville; flags fly forever. I'm also really, really smart.
But enough about me and my awesome teams. I'm here to once again unveil the predictions for the upcoming season, and while my predictions speak for themselves, there is a little bit of chaos theory in play as I think last year I had San Francisco over Texas in six games instead of five.
NL East - Philadelphia - Don't worry about Utley and Lidge. The other teams still have to score and I don't see that happening.
NL Central - Milwaukee - Once again the big market Brewers steal their best players from Kansas City. Rather shameful.
NL West - San Francisco - I hear Pablo-bear is growling.
NL Wildcard - Chicago - Whaaaaaaaaaaaat??????? This is post Carlos Silva and pre Jose Reyes trade. Wrigleyville will be rocking!!!
AL East - Boston - Yawn. Did you hear they signed AGon and Craw? Being really smart is more of a curse than a blessing. Laser show.
AL Central - Chicago - More Guillen please.
AL West - Texas - I predicted the dynasty last year so why stop now?
AL Wildcard - New York - ...
For the World Series I'll take Atlanta over Detroit in six games.
I'd encourage everyone to still watch the season. Happy Opening Day to all.
Skooter 2.0
CUBS!
2012 Goals: Make 2012 my bitch. NYC, Monkey.
"If you run in a tutu, you'd better be ready to win in a tutu" -The Skootr
LANK!
I knew you wouldn't fail me!
We're expecting snow on Friday but it's okay--the Red Sox open the season in Texas against he AL Champion Rangers.
Imaginary Space Filler
SWOON!
Prince of Fatness
It's 2011.
Fuck baseball.
The jogger formerly known as MrPHinNJ
This is the Nationals year.
For what, I'm not sure.
A Saucy Wench
I'd like to go out on a limb and say the Mariners will suck again this year.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
So far, even counting Lank's, we only have one post re: a team that will go over .500 this year...until now! 82 and 80, baby!
OK, Lank, maybe I'm oblivious to a joke that's been going for a couple of years now, and I'm just noticing this, but explain to me one thing -
If you're picking the AL division winners & wildcard to be Boston, Chicago, Texas, and New York, and the NL leaders to be Philly, Milwaukee, San Fran, and Chicago.... how the hell do you get Atlanta and Detroit ending up in the World Series????
"There has never been a run I have regretted heading out for; there have been plenty of runs I have regretted not going out for." (DgRosen)
Trust the process. He's done the math.
the unrunner
hey, now. baseball is no joke.
if you don't run, you'll rust. [tom petty] ..... i just wanna get back on track, even if it kills me. [motion city soundtrack] ..... if i only could be running up that hill, with no problems. if only i could, be running up that hill. [kate bush] ..... still running in place [alkaline trio] ..... at least i'll try and run, and run tonight, everything will be alright [the killers] ..... don't give up the distance. [flavio the magnificent]
No, but, granted, this is the face of one of the game's most dominant athletes:
OK, Lank, maybe I'm oblivious to a joke that's been going for a couple of years now,
I never joke about baseball but it gets a little complicated. I think a graph works well in this situation so this is Mariano Rivera's heat graph against LHB in 2010. As you probably know the heat graph ignores park factors and UZR ratings but as you can see it proves my point.
I'm also a fan of +WPA and ERA- but at some point it's just me showing off.
Spoiler alert: Atlanta won which should surprise no one that reads this thread and is exactly what I predicted.
Normal metrics, such as BMI for example, don't apply to these athletes the way they do to us mortals:
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