Pithy NL Musings
- The Beloved should cruise to 95+ wins. The lineup and starting pitching is deep with only the bullpen needing time to sort things out. And honestly how many teams have their bullpens set already?
- Chris Carpenter is back, as I predicted he would be, but the Cardinal's lineup is too easy to navigate after Pujols.
- The same can be said about the Brewer's lineup after Fielder and Braun. However their starting pitching is much worse and I don't see them winning more than 80 games.
- I think Florida stays in the NL East race until the Mets make a big trade. The Marlins just don't have the deep pockets to go get someone if one of their pitchers goes down.
- Philly just needs to keep treading water until all of thier guys get back. Put the question is, how long can Matt Stairs tread water?
Pithy AL Musings -
- I'm sorry but I have to ask this, are White Sox fans the worst fans in professional sports? The White Sox win the division, defeat their rivals in a thrilling one game playoff, and bring back the core team minus fan unfavorite Javier Vasquez and they draw 27,214 fans per game on their first homestand?
- The central is a race to 88 wins.
- Josh Becket is a tool. Throwing at Abreu may have been just what the doctored ordered for the Angels to regain their mental edge against the Red Sox.
1 comment:
I'm going to agree with Mark, except for the part about eating shit.
Also, is there a more pointless argument in the world that "who has better fans"? What does it even mean to have the best fans? Are the best fans the most loyal? How do you measure loyalty, then? Ticket sales is undoubtedly a crude metric because there are innumerable factors that influence ticket sales aside from how badly people want to watch a particular team play. And even if you could say in any meaningful way that a team had the most loyal fans, is that really something to be praised?
At some point all loyalties become absurd. Drug addicts are loyal to their drugs. Mobsters are loyal to their fellow mobsters. Islamo-terrorists are loyal to their god. Do we praise these people? Unflinching loyalty is the mark of a weak mind, and we should pity people who are so shortsighted as to think that it is praiseworthy.
This is especially true for baseball fans since the object of their loyalty is so fucking pointless. A drug addict chases a sweet high, and a mobster gets money and hot bitches (Tony Soprano style) and a terrorist gets a shitload of virgins, but what does a baseball fan get for his loyalty? Best case scenario: a meaningless championship trophy that they can't even share in because they didn't earn it, the team the root for did. Just. Plain. Retarded.
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