MLB playoffs start today. Thoughts?

[Sonny]

NL:
Cards vs. Padres
Braves vs. Astros

AL:
Yankees vs. Angels
Red Sox vs. White Sox

[tamu33]

cards v astos

yanks v chi. sox


world series
chi. sox v cards


winner
cards

[Sonny]

Reggie Sanders just hit a Grand Slam. He has 5 RBI's already and it's only the 5th inning. Cards 8, Padres Zero. Ouch!

[Dan Wishengrad]

Cards over Padres
Astros over Braves

Yankees over Angels
White Sox over Red Sox

Astros over Cards
Yankees over White Sox

Astros over Yankees

Bronx Bombers will rue the day they let Clemens and Pettite get away, Houston starting pitching the difference in all three series

[Sonny]

Sanders ended up with a record 6 RBI's today. Wow.

The White Sox are pounding the Red Sox.

[Brent Burns]

The White Sox are pounding the Red Sox.

White Sox 8-2 over Red Sox in the 4th now. Ouch! Those Mid-Western teams are on a roll right now.

[green tea]

i was amazed that so many of the espn.com 'experts' picked the astros to do well in the playoffs...

Fifteen experts in the ESPN picks grid...

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2005/news/story?id=2179945

12/15 pick Astros over Braves

8/15 pick Astros over Cards for NLCS

5/15 pick Astros for WS
6/15 pick Angels for WS
2/15 pick Cards for WS
1/15 pick Yanks for WS
1/15 pick Red Sex for WS

i'll keep my fingers crossed. go 'stros!

[Kojima]

baseball's boring. h/r, the nll (and reebok) are looking to form a new nll field league to compete directly with the mll in 2007. this was confirmed by jennings. should be interesting. in other lax news, the victoria shamrocks again won the mann. in six. but there's no real surprise there.

As LAXMAG originally reported on Tuesday night, the NLL has confirmed that they are indeed pursuing a push to take the NLL outdoor in the summer of 2007, commish Jim Jennings confirmed during a press conference in Denver on Thursday afternoon.

As also reported by LAXMAG earlier this week, Jennings confirmed that the newly formed NLL field league would compete directly with the MLL, who will be opening in new markets in Colorado and California this summer.

Jennings sounded very confident in this potential new league and although it wasn't mentioned during the press conference, this push is in direct relation to the NLL's new partnership with Reebok, who very much wants to put a stranglehold on the sport at all levels.

[jessexy]

Baseball Sucks! I'm done with it! Kenny Rogers, Raffy Palmeiro, and Mark McGwire sealed the deal this season.

[KnoxVegas]

Braves in 5. To be gonna from the playoffs that is.

[Tarzan]

Jess, you and I finally agree 100%

I now even skip through (thanks to Tivo) the baseball highlights on sports center...Without baseball and comercials, I watch it in 15-20 min.

I am excited about NLL moving outdoors. Now I understand why they are putting the games on the Outdoor Life Network...

Could we possibly see a future convergence of the MLL and NLL outdoor as the NFL and AFL did back in 1966?

BTW- Sport Center had a great computerized explanation of the new NHL rules….Can’t wait for Hockey!!!

[Kojima]

Could we possibly see a future convergence of the MLL and NLL outdoor as the NFL and AFL did back in 1966?

I think that's the plan, or at least to have cross-promotion between the two. It's too hard to thrive when you only have revenue and media attention four months of the year.

[Danny Hogan]

my major problem with baseball besides the dreadfully slow pace:

toooo many games. how impressive is it every year when the WORLD CHAMPION has 60-70 losses. Just how imporant is every yankees-redsox game when they play (no exag)20 times a year?

[byualum]

That's the allure of the NFL...16 games. The NBA and NHL should both be cut to 50 games.

[Danny Hogan]

agreed. Now if the NFL could find a way to make the last 2 games matter for teams with playoff locks, it would save much fantasy roster anguish.