- AL East Winner- Boston...deepest team in the league and if they make the Halladay move it'll get ugly (NYY- Wild Card after the emergence of Phil Hughes as their dominant setup man)
- AL Central- Minnesota- The pitching can only get better (Liriano has been woeful and Baker started a little slow) and they have the division's best run differential....
- AL West- Texas- I feel like they are right on the brink, and they definitely have a move to be made with their ridiculous farm-system depth... if they get a pitcher, this becomes more secure
- NL East- Philly- Rollins is hitting now...the only question I have (and anyone else has) is about their starting pitching without Brett Myers...but they are smashing everyone in run differential and have the best lineup by leaps and bounds
- NL Central- Chicago- I know St. Louis is right there but I feel like Chicago's talent will win out...Milton Bradley will go on that tear where he hits .400 for a month and Soriano will emerge...
- NL West- LA Dodgers- Best team in baseball this year and Manny is back now... slam dunk of all slam dunks... San Fran gets the wild card based on that ridiculously good pitching staff....
- Albert Pujols WILL hit 60 home runs....but not more than 65....
- Albert Pujols WILL NOT win the triple crown....but he'll come in the top 3 in average and win both HR and RBI....
- Everyone will laugh at the ridiculous Joe Mauer .400 talk...he may hit .360...
- Dan Haren will have an ERA under 2.00....but won't win more than 17 games because their lineup is so putrid....
That's it for that....to more current issues...
- Tiger misses the Cut at the British....pretty shocking to me...only his 2nd missed cut in a major in his career (the other being right after his Dad died) so pretty crazy to me.... but he's almost being upstaged (at least to actual golf fans) by the Tom Watson story...the man has been on the senior tour for as long as I can remember...that should be enough to warrant crazy talk about his performance through 2 days...but seeing the way his putter is working is special...
- The Braves retire Greg Maddux's #31....the best control pitcher I've ever seen...and it's not close...I remember watching him in 1995 when he had the 1.63 ERA and went 19-2...THINK about that....and from a guy without an elite fastball by any stretch....
- Blake Griffin is impressing everyone at the Summer League with not just his talent but his effort level...that shouldn't shock you...what WILL shock you is just how good Anthony Randolph of the Warriors is... I can't emphasize how crazy the kid's skill set is... he could be an elite player and quick...
- I can't fathom the LA Lakers letting both Ariza and Odom go in the same offseason...Ron Artest can't possibly duplicate their production...combined with Boston getting KG back, Cleveland being all kinds of motivated, and the crazy rosters Orlando and San Antonio have put together....can't really make the Lakers the favorite to repeat at this stage....
More later...
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