Rays take on the White Sox and the Sox win in 4.
Red Sox and Angels - Angels win in 4.
Angels and White Sox - Angels win in 6
NL:
Cubs versus Dodgers - Cubs win in 3
Phillies will take the East and Brewers will scrap it together for the Wild Card but the Phillies will take it in 5.
Until I read about the Cubs players talking about how they’d like to raze Wrigley Field for a new park, I was pretty confident we’d go all the way this year. They opened their mouths to create the Bartman/Goat/Black Cat curse of 2008. Never talk about tearing down Wrigley! Especially not this year. To coin a phrase: “What were they thinking?” Hmmm… I think I’ve heard that phrase somewhere else, come to think of it. Anyway, just wait. If the Cubs blow it, the “new park” talk will sit heavy on all of our dreams.
==NL Cubs do what they do best…implode…causing a sox verses Sox world series.==
Sox v Sox World Series, eh? You’re quite the baseball fan, dude.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 12:18 pm:
Team Sleep - Brewers over the Cubs, after the Cubbies have beat them like a rented mule this season (including a Miller Park 4-game sweep)and with the ever-gimpy Sheets? I’ll take two of what he’s having, please.
And all, if the White Sox somehow manage to get by 2 of 3 red-hot AL contenders in the Rays, Angels, or BoSox, they will be a battle-tested team, just like Rocky in the 15th round with both eyes swelled shut.
Sorry, Six. It’s my gut feeling. If Zambrano’s elbow acts up and Rich Harden keeps breaking like the faberge egg he was in Oakland, the Cubbies are toast. Mmm…toast…
I really hope the White Sox can find a miraculous way to reach the World Series so that the Cubs can finally even the score. A cross town classic of epic proportions right here in the Windy City, where the AL’s home field advantage gets tossed by the way side. It will be a ticket broker’s dream, and watch as Sox fans finance their vacation homes by selling off their season tickets. I can’t wait to see the field of blue in the stands at the Cell.
Too much to hope for I guess, but to quote Flounder: “Oh boy is this great!”
Go Cubs go. It’s gonna happen.
- South Side Mike - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 12:49 pm:
This one is tough because of two races in which nobody wants to win: White Sox/Twins for AL Central and Milwaukee/Mets for NL wildcard. So, while my heart is for the White Sox, I think the Twinkies might just pull it out somehow, and while I would love the Brewers to embarrass the Cubs out of the playoffs, I just don’t see them regrouping, and therefore:
AL:
Angels over Boston in 5
Rays over Twins in 4
ALCS: Rays over Angels in 7
NL:
Cubs over Mets in 5
Philly over Dodgers in who cares?
NLCS: Cubs over Philly in 6
World Series: Rays over Cubs in 4
I’ll settle for the Cubs losing in any round, though, but if the Sox manage to make the playoffs, I don’t see them beating the Rays. If they do, though, White (the real) Sox all the way.
AL:
The BoBos beat the Halos in 5
*The second team in history to be called the White Stockings take down the Rays in 5
*The unoriginally-named White Sox then defeat the Rays in 6
NL
Cubs beat the dreaded Metropolitans in 4
Dodgers take care of the Phils in 5
Cubs take out the Dodgers in 6
World Series:
Game 7, top of the ninth, Wood on the mound with a 4-3 lead. He’s loaded the bases with no one out, but inexplicably gotten a popup and a strikeout. The Cell is more than half-filled with Cubbie blue, fans are on their feet, the stadium is rocking and quickly the count is run to 0-2.
Wood fires a breaking pitch in the dirt, miraculously saved by recently-crowned NL MVP Geovany Soto. Wood goes high and tight at 98 mph, nearly hitting AJ and the count is 2-2. Two more high fastballs get fouled off before Wood drops a vicious hook to end the game.
At that precise moment, the Large Hadron Collider proves successful, and the entire earth is sucked into a massive black hole.
* - From Wikipedia, history of names of the Chicago National League Ball Club:
Chicago Cubs (1902–present)
Chicago Orphans (1898-1901)
Chicago Colts (1890-1897)
Chicago White Stockings (1870-1871, 1874-1889)
The success and fame of the Cincinnati Red Stockings (c. 1869), baseball’s first openly all-professional team, led to a minor explosion of other openly professional teams, each with the singular goal of defeating the Red Stockings. A number of them adopted variants on that name, and it happens that the Chicago Base-Ball club, founded by William Hulbert, adopted white. On April 29, 1870, the Chicago White Stockings played their first game, an exhibition, against the St. Louis Unions, defeating them 47-1.
CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! Nothing else matters. Go Cubs! Sorry about the caps, Rich. I almost can’t contain myself.
- Speaking at Will - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 2:40 pm:
I say White Sox over Cubs in 7 games.
How do the Cubs lose this time? Rod Blagojevich pulls a “Bartman” accidentally causing a flyball to become a grandslam on the last out, bottom of the ninth inning.
- Aaron - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:22 am:
Rays take on the White Sox and the Sox win in 4.
Red Sox and Angels - Angels win in 4.
Angels and White Sox - Angels win in 6
NL:
Cubs versus Dodgers - Cubs win in 3
Phillies will take the East and Brewers will scrap it together for the Wild Card but the Phillies will take it in 5.
Phillies versus the Cubs - Cubs win in 6
We then have a Cubs/Angels World Series.
Angels win in 7.
- Cubs in '08 - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:22 am:
Cubs win the World Series over Tampa Bay in 6 games breaking their curse in the playoffs against expansion teams.
- Vote Quimby! - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:25 am:
I’ll go out on a political limb here and say Cubs beat White Sox in 7 games.
- Z - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:26 am:
Cubs beat the Sox (Red or White) in 6 games to win the World Series…that should hold us for another century.
- siriusly - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:33 am:
Cubs over the Phillies in the NLCS, White Sox lose to the BoSox.
Cubs win the Series, and one way or the other Rich Miller will have to write about it.
- Nervous Cubs fan - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:38 am:
Until I read about the Cubs players talking about how they’d like to raze Wrigley Field for a new park, I was pretty confident we’d go all the way this year. They opened their mouths to create the Bartman/Goat/Black Cat curse of 2008. Never talk about tearing down Wrigley! Especially not this year. To coin a phrase: “What were they thinking?” Hmmm… I think I’ve heard that phrase somewhere else, come to think of it. Anyway, just wait. If the Cubs blow it, the “new park” talk will sit heavy on all of our dreams.
- wordslinger - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:38 am:
AL:
Red Sox over Angels in 5
White Sox over Rays in 5
White Sox over Red Sox in 7
—
NL:
Cubs over Mets in 4
Phillies over Dodgers in 5
Cubs over Philllies in 5
—
WS:
Starting in October, the moon will be in the seventh house. Jupiter will align with Mars. Peace will guide the planet, and Cubs in 7.
It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarias!
Let the sun shine!
- Ravenswood Right Winger - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:43 am:
AL:
White Sox beat Tampa Bay in 4.
Boston beats Angels in 5.
Boston beats White Sox in 6.
NL:
Cubs beat Los Angeles Dodgers in 5.
Philadelphia beats Milwaukee in 4.
Philadelphia beats Cubs in 7.
Philadelphia beats Boston in 6 for World Series.
Go White Sox!
- prairiestatedem - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:50 am:
Sox put it together to win the AL, just like 05 when the pressure is on we focus…
NL Cubs do what they do best…implode…causing a sox verses Sox world series.
As always the real Chicago team will win!
- Team Sleep - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 11:55 am:
AL East - Rays
AL Central - ChiSox
AL West - Angels (duh…)
Wild Card - BoSox
NL East - Phillies
NL Central - Cubs
NL West - Manny Ramirez (er, Dodgers)
Wild Card - Brewers
Yes, I think the Brew Crew will regroup.
ALCS - Angels over ChiSox
NLCS - Brewers over Cubs
World Series - Angels over Brewers
World Series MVP - K-Rod
- wordslinger - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 12:02 pm:
==NL Cubs do what they do best…implode…causing a sox verses Sox world series.==
Sox v Sox World Series, eh? You’re quite the baseball fan, dude.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 12:18 pm:
Team Sleep - Brewers over the Cubs, after the Cubbies have beat them like a rented mule this season (including a Miller Park 4-game sweep)and with the ever-gimpy Sheets? I’ll take two of what he’s having, please.
And all, if the White Sox somehow manage to get by 2 of 3 red-hot AL contenders in the Rays, Angels, or BoSox, they will be a battle-tested team, just like Rocky in the 15th round with both eyes swelled shut.
- Team Sleep - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 12:27 pm:
Sorry, Six. It’s my gut feeling. If Zambrano’s elbow acts up and Rich Harden keeps breaking like the faberge egg he was in Oakland, the Cubbies are toast. Mmm…toast…
- Wumpus - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 12:40 pm:
Mets over Milwaukee
Cubs over LA
Cubs over Mets
Angels over Bosox
Rays over Twins
Angels over Rays
Cubs over Angels
- Reality Check - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 12:44 pm:
AL Division Series: Red Sox (wild card) over Angels, Twins over Rays
NL Division Series: Cubs over Mets (wild card), Phillies over Dodgers
AL Championship Series: Red Sox over Twins
NL Championship Series: Cubs over Phillies
World Series: Red Sox over Cubs
- 47th Ward - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 12:46 pm:
Inebriated Barbarians unite!
I really hope the White Sox can find a miraculous way to reach the World Series so that the Cubs can finally even the score. A cross town classic of epic proportions right here in the Windy City, where the AL’s home field advantage gets tossed by the way side. It will be a ticket broker’s dream, and watch as Sox fans finance their vacation homes by selling off their season tickets. I can’t wait to see the field of blue in the stands at the Cell.
Too much to hope for I guess, but to quote Flounder: “Oh boy is this great!”
Go Cubs go. It’s gonna happen.
- South Side Mike - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 12:49 pm:
This one is tough because of two races in which nobody wants to win: White Sox/Twins for AL Central and Milwaukee/Mets for NL wildcard. So, while my heart is for the White Sox, I think the Twinkies might just pull it out somehow, and while I would love the Brewers to embarrass the Cubs out of the playoffs, I just don’t see them regrouping, and therefore:
AL:
Angels over Boston in 5
Rays over Twins in 4
ALCS: Rays over Angels in 7
NL:
Cubs over Mets in 5
Philly over Dodgers in who cares?
NLCS: Cubs over Philly in 6
World Series: Rays over Cubs in 4
I’ll settle for the Cubs losing in any round, though, but if the Sox manage to make the playoffs, I don’t see them beating the Rays. If they do, though, White (the real) Sox all the way.
- Gadfly - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 1:23 pm:
AL:
The BoBos beat the Halos in 5
*The second team in history to be called the White Stockings take down the Rays in 5
*The unoriginally-named White Sox then defeat the Rays in 6
NL
Cubs beat the dreaded Metropolitans in 4
Dodgers take care of the Phils in 5
Cubs take out the Dodgers in 6
World Series:
Game 7, top of the ninth, Wood on the mound with a 4-3 lead. He’s loaded the bases with no one out, but inexplicably gotten a popup and a strikeout. The Cell is more than half-filled with Cubbie blue, fans are on their feet, the stadium is rocking and quickly the count is run to 0-2.
Wood fires a breaking pitch in the dirt, miraculously saved by recently-crowned NL MVP Geovany Soto. Wood goes high and tight at 98 mph, nearly hitting AJ and the count is 2-2. Two more high fastballs get fouled off before Wood drops a vicious hook to end the game.
At that precise moment, the Large Hadron Collider proves successful, and the entire earth is sucked into a massive black hole.
* - From Wikipedia, history of names of the Chicago National League Ball Club:
Chicago Cubs (1902–present)
Chicago Orphans (1898-1901)
Chicago Colts (1890-1897)
Chicago White Stockings (1870-1871, 1874-1889)
The success and fame of the Cincinnati Red Stockings (c. 1869), baseball’s first openly all-professional team, led to a minor explosion of other openly professional teams, each with the singular goal of defeating the Red Stockings. A number of them adopted variants on that name, and it happens that the Chicago Base-Ball club, founded by William Hulbert, adopted white. On April 29, 1870, the Chicago White Stockings played their first game, an exhibition, against the St. Louis Unions, defeating them 47-1.
- Black Ivy - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 2:00 pm:
I am so sick over my White Sox, but if you don’t remain loyal to your team through good and bad, you are not worthy of being called a fan.
Prediction: The White Sox will pull through as the Division champion and make a strong run for the Championship.
Oh, that other Chicago team - the Cubs - wil take their Division handily and meet up with the White Sox in October.
Don’t hate on Chicago y’all~
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 2:02 pm:
CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! Nothing else matters. Go Cubs! Sorry about the caps, Rich. I almost can’t contain myself.
- Speaking at Will - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 2:40 pm:
I say White Sox over Cubs in 7 games.
How do the Cubs lose this time? Rod Blagojevich pulls a “Bartman” accidentally causing a flyball to become a grandslam on the last out, bottom of the ninth inning.
Sox win game seven, and the series 4 - 3.
- Angry Chicagoan - Friday, Sep 19, 08 @ 4:24 pm:
Excuse me, “Maybe people would be less SUPERSTITIOUS and less likely to believe in fate . . “