Baseball Season starting!!

[Flamin Skull]

Who is excited for the new baseball season?

I'm a longtime Oakland A's fan! Too bad they lost so many players from last year. They are always rebuilding! unlike the dynasty in the late 70s and late 80s/early 90s...
this year its probably be Detroit, Boston, Anaheim(I still refuse to call them LA even tho theyre my rivals I got a good friend whos a fan) and some suprise team (hopefully A's!) in the AL
Im predicting the obvious LA dodgers (I hate them with a passion but with the weak NL west theyre the obvious choice), Mets, and the other 2 spots would be a toss up...

[ICEknight]

I was wondering... Does baseball have any "impact" outside of the US and Japan?

[theUndead_feature]

I don't think so.

But I did witness the Angels get their asses handed to them on Monday. The Twins are looking good even though Hunter and Santana left. The metrodome was packed, too. I haven't seen it so full. I've never closely followed baseball before but I think I will this season.

[coire]

Go Philly's!

I'm a fan of the Phillies, even though I don't really watch it that much or keep up with the stats. It's a hometown thing.

[Juice_Lee]

Kinda the same with me and the Cubs. I don't really have time to watch the games, but I'd never turn them off, and I have great fun watching baseball given the chance.

[dk_xcalibur]

Originally Posted by ICEknight

I was wondering... Does baseball have any "impact" outside of the US and Japan?

It's huge in the Caribbean and Northern South America.

[dk_xcalibur]

I've been an O's fan all my life. I was scarred before the season started but so far they are playing better then I thought they would. They are clearly in a rebuilding phase but they are playing well. The bullpen is really playing good.

The Eric Bedard trade is looking better and better every day!

[Flamin Skull]

Originally Posted by Flamin Skull

Who is excited for the new baseball season?

I'm a longtime Oakland A's fan! Too bad they lost so many players from last year. They are always rebuilding! unlike the dynasty in the late 70s and late 80s/early 90s...
this year its probably be Detroit, Boston, Anaheim(I still refuse to call them LA even tho theyre my rivals I got a good friend whos a fan) and some suprise team (hopefully A's!) in the AL
Im predicting the obvious LA dodgers (I hate them with a passion but with the weak NL west theyre the obvious choice), Mets, and the other 2 spots would be a toss up...

seeing that the season will be ending today, I wanted to look back at my predicitions I made at the beginning of the season. (angels, tigers, red sox and 2 suprise teams for AL, and Dodgers, Mets and 2 toss ups)

AL West- I guessed the Angels and was correct, they had a 100 win season
AL Central- looks like either twins or white sox, depending on who wins the last game today, I didnt predict correctly on this, picking tigers.
AL East- DEVIL RAYS?? nobody could have predicted this without a time machine! I'd say I'm half correct, predicting a suprise team making the playoffs.
AL Wild Card- I picked Boston to make it so that's another notch.

NL West- I picked Dodgers before they even got Manny Ramirez and My predicition was correct (I knew Torre could handle the egos on that team)
NL Central- I called it a toss up, Cubs won, I'd call it a draw
NL East- I picked Mets but they was eliminated a couple days ago so I'm wrong on this one...but not by much
NL Wild Card- This was another Toss up (Brewers) so another draw.

I made 3 and a half correct predicitions out of 8 total with 2 wrong picks and 2 draws.
Not too bad?

[theUndead_feature]

I was pretty ****ed the Twins lost. (Damn you, Tigers!) Oh, well. That's all for me, sports fans.

[Flamin Skull]

Originally Posted by theUndead_feature

I was pretty ****ed the Twins lost. (Damn you, Tigers!) Oh, well. That's all for me, sports fans.

Yeah I like the Twins more than the White Sox

If the A's kept all the players they let go in the last 5 years we'd be contending for a championship! Guess Billy Beane is waiting for the Angels to have a off year or something?