Future Prediction Thread

[Drake Tungsten]

Also, the Royals will win the pennant. One of the benefits of playing in the worst division in baseball.

[Arrian]

The offense cannot stay as it is. There's just no way it can be that good all season long. It will most likely be the best offense in baseball, but this has been ridiculous. At some point they will slow down a bit.

The starters have also been hot. IIRC, they have gotten only one bad start: Pettite, in the game (vs. Toronto?) where he twisted his ankle. That too cannot hold up. They're good, but they're not THAT good. Plus, Clemens will do his yearly stint on the DL with a groin pull. What if that happened during the playoffs instead of mid-year?

Hey, they've been great - a pleasure to watch - but a this hot streak is covering some holes. The bullpen is crucial to playoff success. If last year's loss to the Angels didn't illustrate that clearly enough, I dunno what could.

-Arrian

[GePap]

I love it how immence success now could mean eventual doom. I think the bullpen will recover. they have months before the off-season. It is april, damn it! They have until september to get well.

[Arrian]

FP - point noted re: the Red Sox 'pen. Still, I think the concept of the committee has merit... it's just that you need the pitchers to perform. Mendoza got shelled, which means 1 of 3 things:

1) hiding an injury
2) still on Steinbrenner's payroll
3) just going through a rough patch, like many pitchers do... it just happened to be in April.

I'll go with #3 (though I enjoy taunting Sox fans with #2).

The As could do it... but how good is their bullpen? They've got the starters. They may have the offense (once Tejada gets going). But can they close 'em out?

-Arrian

[Arrian]

GePap,

It's intended to be a worst-case sort of prediction. But I feel justified in my worries about the pen. Once I see them pull their **** together, I'll be more confident.

-Arrian

[GePap]

The Yanks made the World Series with less in 1996,99, 2000, 2001, and in 98 they won 114 and won it all as well. They have a great team this year, far better than last year's, even if their offense winds down.

We all know the yanks have the money to get relief pitching in mid-season.

[Drake Tungsten]

FP - point noted re: the Red Sox 'pen. Still, I think the concept of the committee has merit... it's just that you need the pitchers to perform. Mendoza got shelled, which means 1 of 3 things:

1) hiding an injury
2) still on Steinbrenner's payroll
3) just going through a rough patch, like many pitchers do... it just happened to be in April.

I'll go with #3 (though I enjoy taunting Sox fans with #2).

The As could do it... but how good is their bullpen? They've got the starters. They may have the offense (once Tejada gets going). But can they close 'em out?

*thinks of Johnny Damon, Jermaine Dye and Carlos Beltran all in the same outfield*

God I hate the Bosox and the A's.

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To make it more clear:

Amazing! You guessed it!

[Arrian]

Drake,

You're a Royals fan, huh? Don't hate the As & Red Sox. Hate the Royals ownership & management. The As get it done with a shoestring budget just like the Royals.

Hey, at least they're winning now, right?

-Arrian

p.s. Ever read Rob Neyer's pieces on ESPN? There's a cynical Royals fan...

[Eli]

Of all things this thread could become, it became a Baseball thread (or is it Football? all your silly games sound the same).

[Drake Tungsten]

You were correct.

[GePap]

Yeah, looks like you were correct. Demand a price from Eli, and a good one too.

[Drake Tungsten]

Hate the Royals ownership & management.

I've got that covered.

There's a cynical Royals fan...

We're all like that.

[Starchild]

Well, in the long run, I plan to be sipping a pina colada on the farside of Europa, watching the ever expanding sun devour the Earth in fire and destruction.

This is, of course, several billion years in the future. Everyone else, of course, will be dead.

I, of course, will still be fabulous.

[red_jon]

Unfortunately Starchild, since your mind will have had to have been transferred into that of an otter (for utterly uneccessary and hilarious reasons we won't go into now) you will clumsily drop your cocktail and fatally cut your throat desperately trying to lick up the delicious alcoholness.