World Series

d, and with the Braves currently leading the NL East, he’s looking for his first crack at the World Series and the opportunity to go out on top.

How about Carlos Gonzalez?  The Venezuelan outfielder is enjoying a fine year in his first full season as a big leaguer, hitting .320 with 26 homers, 84 RBI’s, and 20 stolen bases.  His batting average, .569 slugging percentage, and .922 OPS put him behind only Pujols and Votto in the National League.  Rockies fans can look forward to many years of watching Gonzalez display his talents at Coors Field.  At 24, he has a very promising career ahead of him.

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enure as owner, Steinbrenner employed 15 different managers, who combined to lead the Yanks to five World Series titles and 11 pennants. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was building a dynas

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After the way Cliff Lee pitched against the Yankees in the World Series six weeks ago, I would have been surprised to hear that the Phillies were even listening to offers for their ace.  But when the chance to acquire Roy Halladay comes around, I suppose any team would be crazy not to listen.  Before I knew it, Halladay was a Phillie and Lee was heading to Seattle, where he’ll join his third club in the span of four and a half months.  How often does that happen to the defending Cy Young Award winner?

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d put themselves in the record books in back-to-back at-bats in the seventh inning of Game 5 of the World Series in Philadelphia.  Each tied an offensive mark originally set before Phil Coke, the Yankee pitcher who faced the duo, was born.  Utley matched Reggie Jackson, who hit five home runs in the 1977 Fall Classic.  Jackson, incidentally, was in his first year in Yankee pinstripes.  Howard tied Willie Wilson, whose 12 strikeouts in the 1980

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ll in the last nine years, as the 2008 Fall Classic features one team that hasn’t been to the World Series in 15 years playing against a team that is playing in its first-ever postseason.

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More than simple offense, in the modern era of baseball, for a team to make the World Series it needs a home run threat.

Let me be clear, not a home run hitter, a home run threat. In the late innings of any game, with Mariano Rivera or Jonathon Paplebon on the mound, who plays Mighty Casey for the fans? Who on the Toronto Blue Jays makes you feel like the game is already over? Any player on the field can hit a home run, even David Eckstein gets his 3-5 a year. A home run threat is a player, who, at any time, in any situation, has the potential to either win, tie or make it a close game. Looking at the 2008 Blue Jays Roster, is there anyone on their roster give you that feeling?

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Chicago

NLCS:         Chicago over Philly

World Series:Boston in six and more heartbreak for Cubs fans

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od bet. 

A string of five straight postseason appearances through the nineties, including a World Series defeat at the hands of the Braves, has led to a more winning attitude. They reached the playoffs in 2001, only to lose to the Mariners, and then fell one out short of the

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Everyone's going green, why not include baseball, too?

4. Bring back day games for the World Series. Baseball's being lost to other sports, in part because kids don't watch the games (live or in person) the way they could when the games were in the daytime. Sure, ratings are higher at night, but how much does this affect ad revenue, really? And even if it does, sometimes you've gotta sacrifice the present for the future, instead of the other way around.

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Colorado Rockies

Are the Rockies the real thing?

The Rockies miraculous run to the World Series was well publicized last year as they won 21 of 22 games before getting swept by the Red Sox in the Fall Classic. Many feel that they just got hot down the stretch and were a fluke team in 2007. That couldn’t be further from the truth and the Rockies will be contenders in 2008. The heart of the lineup that scored the second most runs in the National League last season returns with MVP candidate Matt Holliday, Garrett Atkins, Brad Hawpe and Troy Tulowitzki. While anyone would expect a team in Colorado to score plenty of runs, it is always pitching that becomes the question. The Rockies’ pitching staff posted a very respectable 4.32 ERA last season, but what may be surprising to many, is that their road ERA was better than that of the vaunted San Diego pitching staff (4.29 to 4.42). With young fireballer Ubaldo Jiminez joining the rotation full time, a solid staff led by Jeff Francis becomes even better. Colorado may miss the playoffs this year due to a competitive division, but they will be one of the teams right there at the end battling for a berth.

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s title, your heart probably sank and it has shattered all the chances of the Cubs making it to the World Series.  Put away those tissues and turn that frown around because good old Zambrano is not hurt, but in perfect health.  But will he stay that way?  Below, I have posted my top ten predictions on what will happen during the Cubs season.  If any of these do happen you wish would not happen, please do no send me hate mail.  Enjoy!

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o;t anything else for him to accomplish.  There is one thing Clemens has the Bonds does not: a World Series Ring.  There is still that taste in Bonds mouth for a chance of winning it all.  He did smell the roses in 2002, but his team collapsed the final two games in the

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to Ryan Dempster of the Chicago Cubs make a bold prediction, “I think we are going to win the World Series. I really do.”  Great, just what a Cubs fans need to hear, another prediction. 

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