For giggles.....

I'm going to review a post I made in April.  I owe you guys a review of Wildfire.  It's coming.  It will be on here as of Thursday.  In the meantime, I thought I'd check the accuracy of a baseball post I made at the beginning of the year.  From April 14.  Comments after the season are in RED ITALICS. 

 

Two weeks in....

...and the baseball season is proving to be perplexing as hell. 

This baseball season was one of the weirder seasons in a long time.  I got this right.

I'm making my observations here.  Nothing profound.  No links today.

The Cubs may never lose 3 in a row.  They may never win 3 in a row either.  That does not bode well for the idea of playoffs.  Win streaks are what put teams in the playoffs.  I don't see the Cubs being able to do that.

WRONG DUMBASS!  The Cubs proved to be streaky.  More losing streaks than winning streaks, however.  I was too optimistic before the season started about the Cubs - although most of the players I thought would step up this year - did.  They just were a bad team. 
 The White Sox's bullpen troubles are beyond ludicrous.  Therefore, they will get better.  There is simply no way they can be that bad the entire season.

I'm not really sure where I was with this.  If I recall, the bullpen had blown a bunch of leads in a row at this point.  BUT.  The rest of the team was horrible, so ultimately the bullpen had nothing to do with their failure.  I'm right on this - but WRONG about the White Sox getting any better.  They got worse.  Much worse. 
The Indians are going to fall to Earth.  As are the Royals.  And the Twins will be better.

I got this two thirds right.  The Indians finished below .500 after a torpid pace at the beginning of the season.  The Royals are a scary good offensive team (check out their offensive stats - they are a doubles machine), but they have NO pitching, so they collapsed.  The Twins.  Never got better.  WRONG. 

Albert Pujols will probably hit .300 and have at least 35 home runs.  Because that's what Albert Pujols does.

If Albert Pujols had not played the last game of the season, I would have been 100 % right on this.  At the time I wrote the post, Albert was BAD.  He did hit 37 HR's in 149 games, while batting .299 for the season.  I'd say I was right on this.  The World Series Ring gives me the extra .001 on his BA.  Now - I hope he stays in St. Louis, as much as I want him mashing for the Cubs.  He just belongs there. 

The Red Sox will win the AL East.  The Yankees' pitching simply will not be good enough.

Spectacularly WRONG on this.  The Yankees' pitching did undo them in the playoffs, but the Red Sox missed the playoffs despite having the Wild Card in their grasp with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth in the final game of the season.  That being said, of all the ones I was wrong on, given the night of baseball we were treated to on game 162 - I love being wrong on this one. 

I'm looking forward to seeing any Phillies game this year.

Subjective.  I enjoyed every game I watched of the Phillies this year.  Except when they lost to Carpenter 1-0 in game 5 of the NLDS. 

I'm not sure about the Giants.  But the rest of that division blows. 

I got this one right, kinda.  The Giants were something to be unsure about - BUT - the Diamondbacks were pretty damned good. 

The Rangers are scary good.  And a lot of 3rd base coaches seem to be making bad decisions.

Right up until Nelson Cruz shortarmed the WORLD SERIES WINNING THIRD OUT OF THE NINTH INNING, I believed the Rangers were going to win the World Series this year.  I was right.  They were scary good.  And scary bad shit happened to them in Game 6 of the Series.

I am going to love Kauffman Stadium in KC. 

Yup.  I did.  I want one.  Now. 

I'm going to see Fenway and hate Wrigley even more.  I know it. 

This I was right and wrong on.  I LOVED Fenway, and would INSTANTLY choose it over Wrigley in terms of "old ballparks."  BUT.  After going to Fenway, and seeing what potential Wrigley has if money is dumped into her - I appreciated the beautiful parts of Wrigley MORE after I came back.  It's still a dump.  BUT, it could be more.  I look forward to it being so.  That said, I'd rather have Kauffman Stadium or Citizens Bank Park over EITHER of them.

Nothing is decided in the first 2 weeks of the season.  But lots of things can be decided BECAUSE of the first 2 weeks. 

Buck Showalter deserves a raise.  Since he took over, the Orioles have had the best record in the AL East by like 5 games.  That's crazy.  That team is not that good.  They just aren't. 

What do you know?  They were not that good.  But, they kept the Red Sox out of the playoffs.  Good on them for sending that underachieving team home.  And for getting us Theo Epstein. 

I'm going to hate when this season is over.  Just like I hate it every other year.

Got this one right.  Dammit.