While not mathematically finalized it appears that the participants of the 2009 MLB postseason are close enough to set that we can begin looking at matchups.
AL East: Yankees
AL Central: Tigers
AL West: Angels
Wild Card: Boston
These ones are set. The Yankees will sweep Detroit in the first round and the Red Sox will beat the Angels in 5 like they do every year regardless of preseason record. [Ed. note: The Sox don't beat the Angels every year. Just every year they meet them in the playoffs. The Angels are 0-4 against Boston.]. Thereafter the Red Sox will beat the Yankees in 6.
NL Central: Cardinals
NL West: Dodgers
NL East: Phillies
Wild Card: Rockies
This is a bit more tricky. The Phillies right now have a half game lead on the Cardinals which means that they would play the Rockies in the first round. But with the way the Rockies have played in the second half of the season combined with how the Dodgers have faded, I’m not sure that’s a great prize. I guess it comes down to playing the team that’s hot in the comfort of your own home versus playing the weaker team on the road. Back in 2007, the Phillies played the streaking Rockies at home and got swept but they’re a much better team now than they were then.
If I had to choose right now, I’d say the Rockies have a slight edge over the Cardinals to win the NL. The Matt Holliday pickup combined with the front end of their starting pitching and, of course, Albert Pujols makes me think that they’re best suited to get swept by the AL in the World Series.
Picking a team to root for in the AL Playoffs is like deciding which douchebag is the least douchey. Either way they are a douchebag.
/Rooting for the Mets to pickup Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and Roy Halladay in the offseason
/sighs realizing I will be watching Daniel Murphy, Angel Pagan and Jason Marquis
Was that picture taken when he was a rapist?
if i had to pick ONE team, i’d pick the rockies, but here’s a bunch of evidence about why i think the cardinals will really be the team to beat in the NL.
wow, this sounds like a freshman nerd who’s salty that the successful jocks get all the attention.
we need some more humanizing here.
i mean, that’s what sports blogs are all about, right? i’ll try and get grady sizemore to rape me this weekend and have a post monday.
Hef that last line reads like something TBL would write.
Youkilis is a douchei have crabs
forcier is a douche.
Matt Millen and Sean McDonough wanted to have sex with Forcier on Saturday.
and so they did.
and it was consensual.
Pryor is a douche
pryor IS a douche…and he’s just itching to clean the fuck out of your dirty wolverines in november.
Pryor is a douche
http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/terrellepryordefeat.jpg
yawn…
wake me when the buckeyes go 3-9 or lose to appalachian state or toledo at home and then we’ll talk about defeat. losing a couple of games in the last minutes isn’t really the same as becoming a smoldering wreckage.
Michigan did go 3-9 and did lose those games, I don’t see what that has to do with Pryor being borderline retarded.
just that you linked to a picture that was about losing, not pryor being retarded.
all i was saying is that im a winner, and you’re a loser. i win. you lose. i get to go home and fuck the prom queen, you get to eat one of those green balls that makes you all melty. im sean connery. you’re ed harris. im that cool little light motion sensor in the shower room, you’re a navy SEAL team without position in front of a firing squad.
damn…i really want to watch the rock now for some reason.
I’m glad to be back. I haven’t been called a douche in like 4 or 5 days.
shut up you balless fah go.
Hey, leave Hef’s wife out of this.
And the picture was making fun of Pryor’s brilliant Michael Vick quote, so I would say it was about Pryor being retarded.
I have balls. They just won’t get your moms pregnant anymore.
paris…fine, pryor’s retarded and a douche.
but im right because i can edit all of your quotes to agree with me if it gets to that point. see…look at your first comment in this post.
boom. roasted.
Dammit, I thought they went away…
speaking of crabs, i watched jackass 2 last night.
when they made the gorilla mask for the terrorist stunt with the super troopers guy…wouldnt the crabs one of the guys had get all over that dude’s face?
pretty awesome prank, if you ask me.
You were gone?
WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS!?!??
Spencer’s comment where he threw himself into the situation in the Rock might be my favorite ever. Well done.