\t\t\t\tMy pre-season baseball picks were:<\/p>\n
AL West: A’s, Mariners, Rangers, Angels<\/em><\/p>\n A’s are in second place, ready to kill the Rangers when the time is right – they’re always a stronger second-half team.<\/p>\n AL East: Orioles, Red Sox, Yanks, Devil Rays, Blue Jays<\/em><\/p>\n I won’t pick the Yankees on general principles, but Tejada did win the Home Run Derby and set a new record in the process. <\/p>\n AL Central: Twins, Indians, Royals, White Sox, Tigers<\/em><\/p>\n Twins are in second place, White Sox are doing quite well, but they’re dirty boys who broke Eric Chavez’ hand so they will be cursed.<\/p>\n NL West: Giants, Padres, Diamond Backs, Dodgers, Rockies<\/em><\/p>\n The Giants and Dodgers are see-sawing back and forth. With the league’s best pitcher and best hitter, the Giants (currently in second place) will prevail in the end.<\/p>\n NL East: Braves, Phillies, Mets, Marlins, Expos<\/em><\/p>\n Phillies are apparently leading, but who really cares? Braves in second place.<\/p>\n NL Central: Cardinals, Cubs, Astros, Brewers, Pirates, Reds<\/em><\/p>\n This was easy.<\/p>\n So I’m 1 for 6 right now, but 5 out of 6 are either in first or second, which isn’t too bad for somebody who’s basically a two-team fan.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My pre-season baseball picks were: AL West: A’s, Mariners, Rangers, Angels A’s are in second place, ready to kill the Rangers when the time is right – they’re always a stronger second-half team. AL East: Orioles, Red Sox, Yanks, Devil Rays, Blue Jays I won’t pick the Yankees on general principles, but Tejada did win … Continue reading “Baseball picks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-yq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}