Prognosticate This!

Prognosticating is obviously not my forte. I picked the Cubs to win the World Series in 7 games. Yeah, breaking that 100-year-old curse didn't quite happen, did it?

This evening the Philadelphia Phillies, the team with more losses in it's 123 years history than any team in any major league, won it's second World Series championship. They beat the Tampa Bay Rays, a team that finished in the cellar last year and has never had a winning season in it's ten year history until this year. Of course, I picked the Rays to finish in fourth place, in front of only the lowly Baltimore Orioles, who did indeed end up in last place. So there.

In defense of my prognosticating, I did pick the Phillies to finish in second in their division, behind the Mets, who decided it was better to self-implode at the end of the season rather than end up in first place. So I guess I've got that going for me. And I did pick the Dodgers to win the West, which they did, only to go and beat the crap out of the Cubs, before having the crap beat out of them.

In addition to thinking the Cubs would go all the way this year, I thought the Detroit Tigers would win the American League Central. That didn't work out well at all. It's a bad year for baseball and football in Detroit. I guess there's still hope for the Pistons and the Red Wings.

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (it sounds like they're naming a mall or something with that moniker -- "The Baseball Galleria at Anaheim") won the AL West but couldn't get past a team that I thought wasn't as good as them, the Boston Red Sox.

Shows you what I know.

As for the Cubs, dare I say it?

There's always next year.

Next century, more like it.