Friday, April 03, 2009
2009 Baseball Preview
As the Knicks' spent all of April channeling their innermost Billy Joel and crashing their season away, my attention turned not to spring football, which I don't really care about, but to the prospects of another summer of baseball. But thanks to the continued intellect of Bud Selig and the gigantic fucking wankfest that was the World Baseball Classic, it seems as though it's harder than ever to get jacked about the season. Well, I'm jacked.
And for those of you scoring at home we will once again be at Barrett's Barleycorn for opening day games, and you all should come out. Support the Royals, Cubs, Astros, Twins, etc.
A few predictions to whet your appetite for 162 games of great times.
NL
NL West-Dodgers over DBacks
NL Central-Cubs over Cardinals
NL East-Mets over Phillies
Wild Card: Phillies
NL Champ: Mets over Phillies
MVP: David Wright
Cy Young: Carlos Zambrano (or Johan Santana)
AL
AL East-DRays over Yankees
AL Central-Twins over Indians (then Royals, Tigers, White Sox)
Al West-Angels over A's
Wild Card-Yankees
NL Champ: Angels over DRays
MVP-Evan Longoria
Cy Young: CC Sabathia
World Series: Mets over DRays
Random Predictions:
1. Mark DeRosa, one of my five favorite players in the league, will really piss me off now that he's with the Indians.
2. Carlos Zambrano will be suspended for an incident this year but win the Cy Young anyway.
3. Mike "Little Babe Ruth" Fontenot will not mash like last year but will still OPS .900.
4. The Cubs fans will not like the Milton Bradley signing in August.
5. A. Peterson will spring for a Farnsworth jersey despite his hatred.
6. The Royals will be within 10 games of first place by August 1.
7. The Twins will win the division despite Joe Mauer never being fully healthy.
8. The Twins will have the best defensive outfield in baseball...despite having Delmon Young there.
9. Kevin Slowey, Scott Baker, and Franchise Liriano will combine to win 45 games.
10. The Astros will fucking blow, despite Mayfield telling me in earnest last week they were going to win the division.
11. The Fukudome signing will set Japanese-American relations back farther than Pokemon and Hello Kitty combined.
12. The White Sox will battle it out with the Tigers for last place.
13. The Tigers will literally have less than 5,000 fans at a game this year.
14. Brian Duensing will not stay with the Twins all season.
15. The Nebraska baseball team is and will continue to have its "7 and 7" year followed by Mike Anderson starting next year fighting for his job.
16. I will purchase the baseball package and enjoy the holy hell out of it while saving money from not going to the bar every third day in the process.
Enjoy it, everyone.
And for those of you scoring at home we will once again be at Barrett's Barleycorn for opening day games, and you all should come out. Support the Royals, Cubs, Astros, Twins, etc.
A few predictions to whet your appetite for 162 games of great times.
NL
NL West-Dodgers over DBacks
NL Central-Cubs over Cardinals
NL East-Mets over Phillies
Wild Card: Phillies
NL Champ: Mets over Phillies
MVP: David Wright
Cy Young: Carlos Zambrano (or Johan Santana)
AL
AL East-DRays over Yankees
AL Central-Twins over Indians (then Royals, Tigers, White Sox)
Al West-Angels over A's
Wild Card-Yankees
NL Champ: Angels over DRays
MVP-Evan Longoria
Cy Young: CC Sabathia
World Series: Mets over DRays
Random Predictions:
1. Mark DeRosa, one of my five favorite players in the league, will really piss me off now that he's with the Indians.
2. Carlos Zambrano will be suspended for an incident this year but win the Cy Young anyway.
3. Mike "Little Babe Ruth" Fontenot will not mash like last year but will still OPS .900.
4. The Cubs fans will not like the Milton Bradley signing in August.
5. A. Peterson will spring for a Farnsworth jersey despite his hatred.
6. The Royals will be within 10 games of first place by August 1.
7. The Twins will win the division despite Joe Mauer never being fully healthy.
8. The Twins will have the best defensive outfield in baseball...despite having Delmon Young there.
9. Kevin Slowey, Scott Baker, and Franchise Liriano will combine to win 45 games.
10. The Astros will fucking blow, despite Mayfield telling me in earnest last week they were going to win the division.
11. The Fukudome signing will set Japanese-American relations back farther than Pokemon and Hello Kitty combined.
12. The White Sox will battle it out with the Tigers for last place.
13. The Tigers will literally have less than 5,000 fans at a game this year.
14. Brian Duensing will not stay with the Twins all season.
15. The Nebraska baseball team is and will continue to have its "7 and 7" year followed by Mike Anderson starting next year fighting for his job.
16. I will purchase the baseball package and enjoy the holy hell out of it while saving money from not going to the bar every third day in the process.
Enjoy it, everyone.
Labels: Barrett's Barleycorn, baseball, Minnesota Twins, Nebraska Baseball
Sunday, March 30, 2008
It's Opening Day Eve!
Just like when I was a kid at Christmas, knowing Santa will have come along and left toys by the tree, the anticipation is at a level that is quite high: it's the night before Opening Day!
(Note: I officially hate MLB with their ridiculous "Opening Series-In Japan!," "Opening Night," and then "Opening Day." It's insane. Fire Joe Morgan may not care, but I say that Opening Day should be the same every year: the first game of the year takes place in Cincinatti, as it did for several decades before this "let's have an opening series start in Japan, end in Oakland, but then still market the first night game and the first round of day games like it's the first!")
ANYWAYS, with Opening Day comes another wonderful and honored tradition: running up unimaginable tabs at Barrett's!
It should be another fun day with the Heavy Soul crew at Barrett's--it's supposed to be cold and rainy tomorrow. Where else would you rather hole up and avoid the weather? Not to mention watching a few games of baseball? It's going to be fun, friends.
I believe people will be arriving around 12:30 or so. We will be drinking and dining in the basement of Barrett's. Tiger was nice enough to set it up so we should have it to ourselves, and I believe we arranged to have a few coolers stocked waiting for us.
I hope everyone that can will make it. It wil be another great day, and another fabulous season of Major League Baseball--this year with less steriods!
See you tomorrow.
(Note: I officially hate MLB with their ridiculous "Opening Series-In Japan!," "Opening Night," and then "Opening Day." It's insane. Fire Joe Morgan may not care, but I say that Opening Day should be the same every year: the first game of the year takes place in Cincinatti, as it did for several decades before this "let's have an opening series start in Japan, end in Oakland, but then still market the first night game and the first round of day games like it's the first!")
ANYWAYS, with Opening Day comes another wonderful and honored tradition: running up unimaginable tabs at Barrett's!
It should be another fun day with the Heavy Soul crew at Barrett's--it's supposed to be cold and rainy tomorrow. Where else would you rather hole up and avoid the weather? Not to mention watching a few games of baseball? It's going to be fun, friends.
I believe people will be arriving around 12:30 or so. We will be drinking and dining in the basement of Barrett's. Tiger was nice enough to set it up so we should have it to ourselves, and I believe we arranged to have a few coolers stocked waiting for us.
I hope everyone that can will make it. It wil be another great day, and another fabulous season of Major League Baseball--this year with less steriods!
See you tomorrow.
Labels: Barrett's Barleycorn, It's a Very Heavy Soul Opening Day, Major League Baseball
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