Ham City Kev’s 2010 MLB Post-Season predictions
New York Yankees vs Philadelphia Phillies: AGAIN! Why not? The 2 most disgusting fan bases in baseball for America’s enjoyment. Met fans suffering through another 2 weeks of “who are you rooting for?” (I’m rooting for a stadium collapse, as usual). Me watching the whole series on mute because I can’t stand to hear either fanbase happy (also to save myself from Buck and McCarver, but that’s a given). One year later and the Phillies are a better team, the Yankees a worse one. For this prediction, I revert to history: The Yankees always win championships in bunches. Maybe this is an off year and they’ll pick up a pair in 2011 and 2012, but my gut tells me I’ll be suffering through another Yankees championship and another unfortunate incident of the Wild Card coming out on top. Shout all you want about Halladay, Oswalt, and Hamels, but the Braves of the 90s proved that formula doesn’t always work. It would be FANTASTIC if–for the first time ever–the home team loses every World Series game, but I’ll say: Yankees in 6.
God dammit.
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Gord Tep:
October 6th, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Come on, Kev — YANKEES!?! The year that everybody unanimously agrees their pitching just isn’t strong enough. I think the Phillies take out Tampa (or Texas, whichever wins that series).
Ham City Kev:
October 6th, 2010 at 4:38 PM
Hey man, 2000 really warped me.
Yankees pitching doesn’t STINK, it’s just been stinking lately. There’s a difference. Hughes and Pettitte are good pitchers. It would surprise no one if they each turned in a few good games. Now if the Yankees were sending out Steve Trachsel and Aaron Heilman in games 2 & 3, THEN you can talk about weak pitching. If the Yankee pitching was really as bad as all the mouthbreathers on WFAN say it is, they wouldn’t have won 95 games.
But again, there are no locks this year. If my predictions were even 50% accurate I’d be VERY surprised.