The Ten Month Beat

An account of the ten months at the graduate school of journalism for the class of 2006.

10.04.2005

Its post-season time again!

So October's finally here, and you know what that means: Baseball's Post-Season. With both the Yankees and the Red Sox making it into October, the New York papers are bound to be all over the story. As an example, most vendors are now displaying the Post with its back sports cover, not whatever unimportant sensationalism is on the front. These next few weeks, they're for New York baseball.

So its time to make predictions. Personally, I'd like to see the Yankees and the Red Sox both taken down in their first series', to let for some good baseball from some good teams (the Angels and the "white hot" White Sox).

My predictions

NL:

Astros over Braves in 4 games. (I'm a Mets fan, so I despise Atlanta)
Cardinals over Padres in 3 games (The Padres are the worst team to make it to the post-season, with a lower record than the Mets. The Cardinals are by far the best team in the National League today)

Division: Cardinals over Astros in 6 games

AL:

Angels over Yankees in 6 games (The Angels are a very good team, and they can give the Yanks, who are more hype than hot playing, a run for their money)

White Sox over Red Sox in 5 games (The White Sox are the best team in Major League Baseball today, period. The Red Sox are good, but they were barely good enough to make it past the Indians last week)

Division: White Sox over Angels in 5 games (The Angels will be tired after their bout with the Yankees)

World Series: Chicago over St. Louis in 7 games (Chicago needs a championship. St. Louis might have its own little curse going on, but after a sweep by Boston last year, they're not ready for this)

2 Comments:

  • At 12:17 AM, Blogger zsk said…

    two things:

    1) angels can't win over yankees in 6. first-round series are best 3 of 5.

    2) i think houston will beat the cardinals and, in fact, take the series. their 1-2 combo of pettitte and clemens will be pretty hard to beat. pettitte had the best second half of any pitcher in the majors, and clemens had the best e.r.a. of any pitcher for the year.

    ps. i am a j-school spouse, not a j-school attendee. if you'd rather i not post here, let me know. love the blog!

     
  • At 3:28 PM, Blogger ninaberries said…

    by "angels" do you mean the los angeles angels of anaheim or the anaheim angels?

    just wondering...

     

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