It’s another season with predictions buzzing like clockwork at the start of Opening Day and without tripping on my way up the bandwagon ladder I have decided to join in and reveal my predictions for the 2008 Major League Baseball season.

American League

Division Leaders
East: New York Yankees - 93 wins
Central: Detroit Tigers - 90 wins
West: Los Angeles Angels - 86 wins
Wildcard: Boston Red Sox - 91 wins

Division Series
New York Yankees over Los Angeles Angels - 3-2
Boston Red Sox over Detroit Tigers - 3-1

F*ANGELS and their stupid rally monkey. Sitting in that rat infested hell hole surrounded by a bunch of phony Angels fans made me sicker than a health inspector doing a once over of the concessions….

Following a night-long beer-in-hand debate of Major League Baseball’s official rules, the age-old trivia question of how many ways to get to first base came up with varying results. After doing some sober research, the results put everyone in their place as I am sure it will for everyone that reads on…

The official ways to get to first base comes courtesy of Gary Belsky and Neil Fine’s book 23 Ways to Get to First Base. A great piece for every sports trivia buff’s collection, the book details out each and every way possible to reach base, and I quote:

It is hard not to love Rickey Henderson as a baseball player, but it is even harder not to laugh at our generation’s version of the great Yogi Berra with the much beloved Rickey-isms. I came across this compilation of Rickey Henderson moments via Sour Grapes weblog and felt the need to share.

Visit Source: http://pecklers.blogspot.com/2006/09/rickey-isms.html

Rickey-isms

There was a great piece by Lou Blasi in today’s Fantistics update. They have some pretty good writers at Fantistics, though they tend sometimes to be a little to into statistics for my tastes. But when Lou writes stuff like this (actually, he just quoted someone else, but at least he published it so I could see it), it makes finishing out of the money almost worthwhile. I quote:

We all know that Gary Sheffield likes to speak his mind whenever a microphone and camera come within range of his big mouth, but is his recent racial crusade raising eyebrows over his slandering or an actual concern for his cause? Well if it was anything other than slandering, my guess would be that he might have raised these issues while in the clubhouse that employed him, oh wait, that’s right, Gary didn’t want to ruffle any feathers while he was getting paid $40M, that might have jeopardized his ability to perform for any other reason than money.

I recently came across an article about former New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs on tastybooze.com that is quite possibly one of the funniest articles I have ever read. Never in my life would I have believed it but Jeff Nelson confirmed, Wade Boggs is the man. See the article below and visit the source for many more.

Visit Source: http://tastybooze.com/2007/04/the-origin-of-boggs/

The Origin of Boggs
Posted by Hank Yerzimbeck April 25th, 2007 on Tastybooze.com

We’ve had a few questions come up about Boggs, and why we refer to tasty Miller Lites as Boggs. Well my friends, open your ears and I’ll pour in a tale.