Braves/Dodgers, Pirates/Cards, Rays/Red Sox, Tigers/A's: Who wins it all?

Kansas City Royals fan here, eminently excited we've got a team now, can't wait for next year.

Gotta go with the home state of Missouri here. In the NL, Cardinals take it in three from Pittsburgh, beat the Dodgers in seven.

In the AL, stick with the Central champs (who we won the season series from). Tigers beat Oakland in Oakland in game one, win ALDS in five, play the Red Sox and upset them in six.

Cardinals beat Detroit in six.

What say you?

 

As I said on another thread in this forum, "NEVER EVER tell a Royals or Red Sox fan you're a Yankees fan. We'll hunt you down and teepee your house!"

 

Condolences on our pending elimination.

 

That's because they've got three former Missouri Tigers in their rotation and in their bullpen. :thumbsup:

 

UPDATE: The A's are so far into the Tigers' heads, they decide what they order for take-out. (Can't take credit for that: It was on the Sports Illustrated website.)

Tigers are probably going to lose the series, blowing my prediction and putting Oakland against the Rays/Red Sox winner, which, after last night, is decidedly undecided. Tampa showed some fight, coming from three down to tie it in the fifth, took the lead in the eighth, endured a Sox rally that tied it in the ninth, and got a walk-off home run from an unlikely source, catcher Jose Lobotan to avoid a Red Sox sweep.

Cardinals have the rubber game with Pittsburgh Wednesday, surprising to me as I figured St. Louis would breeze through that series, given the Pirates' failure to generate offense the last ten days of the season. St. Louis will still win it, though, since the game is under the Arch.

As I figured, the Dodgers dealt with Atlanta in three, and will play St. Louis in the NLCS when the Redbirds dispatch the Bucs tomorrow.

 

Don't forget to throw the Royals in there, too. They made a huge leap forward this season, and if not for the June 12-game losing streak and the August nine-game losing streak -- had they played .610 through those streaks like they did the rest of the season -- they would have taken the AL Central, five games better than Detroit. They ranked 20th in the league at just under $80 million, and that's after shooting up from three years ago at barely $55 million.

Salary sure isn't everything. Toronto is at # 9, spending just over $117 million this year, and look where that got them.

 

Yeah, I may have given up on my prediction too soon. Of course, they gotta win in Oakland, but the A's looked pretty deflated after blowing a three-run lead.

 

Not bad for a guy from Old Dominion, huh? :thumbsup: