{"id":2895,"date":"2004-10-04T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/10\/baseball-picks\/"},"modified":"2004-10-04T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-04T22:31:13","slug":"baseball-picks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/04\/baseball-picks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tEarly in the baseball season, I made some predictions:<\/a><\/p>\n

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AL West: A?s (winner: Hollywood Angels)<\/p>\n

AL East: Orioles, Red Sox (winner: Evil Empire, Boston is the wild card)<\/p>\n

AL Central: Twins (winner: Twins)<\/p>\n

NL West: Giants (winner: Hollywood Dodgers)<\/p>\n

NL East: Braves (winner: Braves)<\/p>\n

NL Central: Cardinals, Cubs, Astros (winner: Cards, Astros are wild card)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s 3 out of 6, and one of the two wild cards as a second place finisher, although I didn’t explicitly identify wild card winners.<\/p>\n

Matt Welch did better<\/a>, getting 4 out of 6, but he cheats. I don’t pick the Yankees, Angels, or Dodgers to win anything because it’s not sporting. They have the highest payrolls in baseball, and they should obviously win so there is no honor in picking them. Ruling out the evil-doers, who were half of his correct picks, I beat Welch by a landslide, and I didn’t coddle the terrorists in the process.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: See Scott Eiland’s post-season picks.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are mine: <\/p>\n

DS:
\nYankees over Twins
\nSox over Angels<\/p>\n

Cards over Dodgers
\nAstros over Braves<\/p>\n

CS:
\nYankees over Sox
\nCards over Astros<\/p>\n

WS:
\nCards over Yankees<\/p>\n

AL MVP
\nDoesn’t matter<\/p>\n

NL MVP
\nBarry <\/p>\n

AL Cy Young
\nJohan Santana<\/p>\n

NL Cy Young
\nRandy Johnson\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early in the baseball season, I made some predictions: AL West: A?s (winner: Hollywood Angels) AL East: Orioles, Red Sox (winner: Evil Empire, Boston is the wild card) AL Central: Twins (winner: Twins) NL West: Giants (winner: Hollywood Dodgers) NL East: Braves (winner: Braves) NL Central: Cardinals, Cubs, Astros (winner: Cards, Astros are wild card) … 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-2895","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-KH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","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=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}