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Originally Posted by the_tyrant
I might become a Blue Jay this year (hopefully). The team is recruiting analyst interns from my school, if I get lucky, maybe I will get a shot.
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Not bad. The Blue Jays are like...the "Ron Paul 2012" of Major League Baseball...
Some people follow it...and it seems like it's worth following...but then you realize it's all talk and they can't follow through with anything.
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But uh, no matter how I spin it, there is no way rooting for the Jays would be good for one's sanity. They made 0 improvements this off season, while all the guys just got a year older. Sure, last year their luck was spectacularly bad, but even if they regress a bit, I don't see the Blue Jays pulling more than 85 wins. After all, they are in the AL East, the hardest division in baseball.
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You're right about AL East...it seems to be all about AL East whenever they show stuff on sports tv channels. If it's not East...it's a West division. The coasts dominate the game according to the media.
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I feel like this season the National League will be a yawn. The Dodgers will dominate the west, the Cardinals will dominate the central, the Braves and nationals will contest the east. The toughest contested spot is probably going to be the second wild card.
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Well heck yes they will! And if they don't I will be severely disappointed. We've lost pretty badly in some of these preseason games. I haven't gotten a chance to look at the box score for any of them yet...but the scores say enough.
See, for me it's the opposite way around. AL is the boring one to me. Seems to me that all the steroid players are AL guys and all the teams are these overrated coastal teams.
National League isn't overrated and there's no DH (Let's face it...it's a dumb position)
Every once in a while I'll actually catch an AL game....not a whole lot of them air here.
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My national league picks:
West: Dodgers
Central: Cardinals
East: Braves
Wild Card 1: Nationals
Wild Card 2: Pirates/Reds/Diamondbacks
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I would have to agree with that. Dodgers have a solid team this year.
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The American League should be fun though. The west should be a tough division, the A's and Rangers should be fighting for the top spot, but the Mariners and Angels shouldn't be counted out. The Mariners have Cano, and the Angels should see their players bounce back a bit. Tigers should win the central, but their horrible move of shipping Doug Fister to the Nations for effectively a prospect + a few players to be named later will probably backfire. The Royals and Indians should be able to make some gains, and challenge the Tigers dominance.
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Another AL thing that I've noticed is that while these teams sit on their high horse and look down on the NL...they also play up the rivalries a lot more. And when you hear "baseball" and "rivalry" in the same sentence you automatically think Boston-New York.
Maybe it's just me...but I see the AL as the rich side of baseball. The Power Elite...
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The AL east is completely unpredictable. The Yankees are the biggest reason.
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They're either really good or really bad and they still have way too many bandwagon fans.
Jeter....he's out of his prime for sure. This team though...they pay millions and millions of dollars just to have players sit bench for them. Of course, it's nice when you're a player and you get that deal...but I don't much like that.
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My AL picks:
AL West: Rangers
AL Central: Tigers
AL East: Red Sox
WCs: A's/Yankees/Rays/Royals/Indians
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Like i said, I don't get to see or hear much about the AL outside of the internet. It's NL or nothing out here. But those look like good picks to me. The Rangers have had some good years....and so have the Tigers. I despise the Sox now because of last year's World Series...but you can't rule out the possibility.
I think that if the Jays are recruiting analyst interns....you'll get it.
EDIT: If this darn snow and ice would clear, my school's team could start practice. My glove has been empty for too long.