It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you...

without some dope music to step to...

And now, allow me to say that I am completely stupid. Cubs suck, Sox/Twins/Tigers suck, Rays are mediocre...Rangers choked (although I think I called that one). My apologies for not getting to the NL Central or NL West, but I've been working and getting adjusted.

The Cardinals made the best trade at the deadline, and Matt Holiday better get down on his knees and kiss Albert Pujols rear-end, because Pujols re-made Holiday into a very rich man come this off season. Dave Duncan is hands down the best pitching coach in the game...come on, Joel Pinero and Kyle Losche? Oh good Lord. Jeff Weaver a couple of years ago...wow. And that training staff deserves a lot of cred for keeping Chris Carpenter in one piece this year too.

The Cubs...eeesh. As a Sox fan, I should know better than to pick the Cubs to do anything, but I said at the time that Milton Bradley was a giant mistake. Not even considering that you signed him to a $30 million deal, while BOTH Adam Dunn AND Bobby Abreu were still available. BOTH signed for LESS than Bradley, both have produced far better and neither has smeared an entire city and fan base as racist without offering specific examples (and I don't ever mean to diminish charges of racism, but you have to say, "I heard this at this time, I heard that at this time and I told security about it," early on. I don't like Cubs fans, but the overwhelming majority of them just love their team and want them to win, for crying out loud. Lou Pinella clearly doesn't want to be a major league manager anymore but still wants to be paid (and I don't blame him...I'd like $3 million too). Cubs fans, the next 2 years are going to suck for you. Ryan Dempster will never be as good as he was in 08, and Soriano & Bradley are going to decline next year again. Zambrano is a head case, and I'd be Derreck Lee at least gets shopped in the off season.

The NL West is fun race, but I think El Giants will be on the outside looking in (although this entire blog excercise has taught me that I seemingly know very little about predicting baseball [cough], so, maybe I should just shut the hell up). HOWEVER...I was right about Edwin Jackson coming back to Earth, so Tigers fans, better hope that Verlander can carry that weight in the playoffs, cause the AL Central the next 2 seasons should belong to the ChiSox, as long as Rios actually hits closer to his career numbers and not Brian Andersons (PUUUUUUKE).

I say the CS match ups are Angels-Yankees and Phillies-Cards, with a Yankees-Phillies WS with the NYY enjoying their 27th trophy.


Peace and love, peace and love.