Friday, April 11, 2008

 

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes it rains ...

The Meaters have put their not-so-mighty heads together and come up with some baseball predictions. We'll review at season's end unless I miss on every one, in which case I'll hope everyone forgets about this by then.

The consensus picks have been labeled; the only race that did not have a consensus was the NL MVP. Interestingly, the only unanimous pick was the Phillies winning the wild card, while Budds and BT picked the Mets to win the NL East and I picked the Braves.

On to the picks:

Budds
AL East: Red Sox (consenus Meat pick)
AL Central: Indians (consenus Meat pick)
AL West: Angels (consenus Meat pick)
Wild Card: Yankees (consenus Meat pick)
AL MVP: Alex Rodriguez, Yankees (consenus Meat pick)
AL Cy Young: Josh Beckett, Red Sox (consenus Meat pick)

BT
AL East: Yankees
AL Central: Tigers
AL West: Mariners
Wild Card: Indians
AL MVP: Alex Rodriguez, Yankees
AL Cy Young: Josh Beckett, Red Sox

EJ
AL East: Red Sox
AL Central: Indians
AL West: Angels
Wild Card: Yankees
AL MVP: Manny Ramirez, Red Sox
AL Cy Young: Roy Halladay, Blue Jays

NL East: Braves
NL Central: Cubs (consenus Meat pick)
NL West: Diamondbacks (consenus Meat pick)
Wild Card: Phillies (consenus Meat pick)
NL MVP: Case Utley, Phillies
NL Cy Young: Johan Santana, Mets (consenus Meat pick)

BT
NL East: Mets
NL Central: Brewers
NL West: Diamondbacks
Wild Card: Phillies
NL MVP: Matt Holliday, Rockies
NL Cy Young: Johan Santana, Mets

Budds:
NL East: Mets
NL Central: Cubs
NL West: Dodgers
Wild Card: Phillies
NL MVP: Ryan Howard, Phillies
NL Cy Young: Jake Peavy, Padres

World Series
BT: Yankees over Mets
Budds: Yankees over Dodgers
EJ: Diamondbacks over Angels

Comments:
EJ - thanks for posting. I may be splitting hairs, but I always thought "consensus" in sportspeak meant unanimous, not simply a majority.
 
And, after a little googling, your usage seems to be the right one. Huh.

Withdrawn.
 
What does "consenus" mean, though?

Did we ever revisit last year's picks? I suppose that I could do that quickly, but ... I'm quite lazy.
 
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