Baseball: The playoffs are upon us!
I try to keep my baseball fandom to a dull roar here, since I know what a bore it can be to listen to a fan drone on when you don’t share that passion. So this will be just a simple reminder that Hoover’s covers many professional sports franchises, both in the US and beyond (Real Madrid, anyone?), including all the teams of Major League Baseball. Oh, and just for fun I’ll be offering my picks for the playoff series winners.
In the two National League division series, the light-hitting youngsters of the Arizona Diamondbacks will host the championship-starved Chicago Cubs (Cubs in four), while the surging Philadelphia Phillies will host the surging Colorado Rockies (Phils in five, and the runs will come in bunches). The winners of the two series will meet in a week in the National League Championship Series (Cubs in six).
In the two American League division series, the 2004 champion Boston Red Sox will host the 2002 champion L.A./Anaheim Angels (Sox in four), while the oft-disappointed Cleveland Indians will host the perennially powerful New York Yankees (Yankees in four). The winners of the two series will then meet in what could be an Armageddon-esque reprise of the 2003 and 2004 American League Championship Series (Sox in seven, and bar the door).
The National League and American League pennant winners will then meet in the Fall Classic (Cubs in seven, and you might want hide the children), with the American League club hosting since the A.L. won this year’s All-Star game.
The games start later today, and I can barely wait. Play ball!
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