It's that time of year again. the playoffs are upon us.

First round begins Tuesday. Here are my picks

Division Series

Minnesota vs New York

Boston vs Anaheim

Los Angeles vs St. Louis

Houston vs Atlanta

League Championship Series

Atlanta vs. St. Louis

Boston vs. Minnesota

World Series

Atlanta over Boston in 7


My spring training pick was Atlanta over Boston in the world series so i'm staying with that again. Sucks that the cubs didnt make it, i would have rather played them than the astros.. the astros scare me a little bit, they are the hottest team coming intot he postseason, and i think that "stomach virus" clemens had today was a bs excuse to save him for the possibility of a one game playoff or for Game 1 of the NLDS. If Atlanta doesnt win it this year, 2nd choice is Boston, and after that, any team that isnt the Yankees.

Atlanta will lose to Houston

wouldnt surprise me

first pitch in less than 2 hours..

Sorry dude, but we're going to see NYY vs BOS again.

yeah i know.. i just dont ever pick the yankees to win.. call it wishful thinking

Division Series

Minnesota vs New York

Boston vs Anaheim

Los Angeles vs St. Louis

Houston vs Atlanta

League Championship Series

Minnesota vs Boston

Los Angeles vs Atlanta


World Series

Boston vs Los Angeles

Good Job, Catnip!

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What I would like to see:

Division Series:

Minnesota vs New York
Boston vs Anaheim
Los Angeles vs St. Louis
Houston vs Atlanta

League Championship Series:

Minnesota vs Anaheim
St. Louis vs Atlanta

World Series:

St. Louis vs Anaheim - 6 games

What's really going to happen:

Division Series:

Minnesota vs New York
Boston vs Anaheim
Los Angeles vs St. Louis
Houston vs Atlanta

League Championship Series:

New York vs Boston
St. Louis vs Houston

World Series:

St. Louis vs Boston - 6 games

World Series: Atlanta over the Twins in six games.

i'm goin to the angels vs. bosox game 1! first pitch is in 3 hours!

Division Series

Minnesota vs New York

Boston vs Anaheim

Los Angeles vs St. Louis

Houston vs Atlanta

League Championship Series

Houston vs. St. Louis

Boston vs. Minnesota

World Series
St. Louis over Boston in 6

Boston over the Twins????? Blasphemy!!!

Pedro chokes in big games

Johan Santana, Future AL Cy Young winner, will prevail!!!!

It's funny how you guys are pushing aside the low budget teams, similar to the way people put aside OSU against Miami in 2002.

I have a question reguarding the playoff 1st round match ups. Why are the Yankees playing the Twins instead of the Angels?
They way I "thought" it worked was : The 3 division winners are seeded 1-3 based on best regular season record, while the wild card team is seeded 4. Then the 1 seed would play the 4 seed and the 2 seed plays the 3 seed. With the EXCEPTION that if both the 1 and 4 seeds are from the same division, then the 1 seed would play the 3 seed and the 2 seed would then play the 4 seed.
This held true for the NL opening round, but not the AL. Am I missing something here?

Anaheim and Minnesota finished with the same record (92-70). Anaheim won the season series 5-4, so they win the tiebreaker and become the 2 seed.

boston all the way.

woot, go sox.

OK, I see where I went wrong, I was looking at the win columns on ESPN.com's MLB standings page (apparently ignoring the loss column)
and now see that they have the Twins' record wrong, 93-70? that would be 163 games, 1 too many!
Thanks for helping me get it straight!

rough day for LA area teams

sox win, yanks lose.. good start. great to see sheffield with the 0-for today.. after hes hit about .100 the last 2 postseasons for atl.

braves/astros start tomorrow. and ill be at work

yankees lose!!!

Oh yeah!!! The rout begins!!!!

You know it's gonna be a good day when...

You wake up, and thus haven't died in your sleep.
The Yankees lose!

johan is unstoppable.

the angels bosox game was pretty fun. my first playoff anything. gotta love the atmosphere. i was really impressed by the bosox. friggin forgot my camera in the car though. :doh:

Amen! Preach da word, brother!!!

That's what you get playing against Santana.

was mussina the yanks best pitcher? cuz if i was the yanks, i woulda put some no-name in to face santana. no sense in putting your best guy against him, cuz you're guaranteed to lose...

Yes, he was considered the "ace". He didn't pitch too bad, but Santana was too good.

yeah, if it was me, i woulda saved my "ace" for game 2. he hasn't lost since the all star break, has he? something like 15-0...

Not to mention he had an ERA below 1.40 for the second half of the season.

my guess...sox win the world series in game 7

I agree that the Sox will win it, but I don't know in how many games considering I don't know who they'll face.

damn cubs

tell me about it man. i just changed all my cubs wallpapers and icons and stuff today....so depressing...

wtf i hate the yankees. i mean damn. why cant they just not rally every once in a while like normal teams. today has sucked. rabble rabble rabble.

the yankees need to bully someone else

god I love the yankees!

it sucks that your team owners aren't willing to invest more in the team and competitively buy players.

p.s. that win tonite was sweet.

Quoted for truth.

god i hate that argument. most owners dont have that kind of money lying around to invest in the first place. most teams have to use this system called the "Minor Leagues".. thats where you have lower level teams in smaller towns associated with your team, basically they train your players to become good major league ballplayers to help your team in the future. but yankees fans wouldnt know anything about that. no matter how many championships they win, they are bought, not earned.

man Jeter is IMO the best base runner in the league, such great anticipation. awesome win!

jeter is my boy, even though i hate the yankees, we went to school together

gotta love the yanks

Lets go Red Sox

thats it for the angels...

Who is to blame the last 1.5 weeks of failure for the Cubs ? Astros win 36 of last 46 games, thats tight Well last year they lost by 1 game back. Revenge.
Sosa should do what Dusty baker told. He should act like a leader. Its not his fault last year playoff.


Astros on the way to beat Braves and Cards. Killer C's(cure) and Killer B's.

Let's not get out of hand. He tagged up on a fly ball! Oooh! Jones screwed up by not throwing home -- instead he threw it to the first baseman who made a bad throw too. Still the ball got there at the same time Jeter did. I like Derek Jeter, he's a hell of a ball player -- but he's lucky the Twins didn't make that play. (BTW, the Twins deserved to lose and it was really inevitable once New York tied it. See 2003 ALCS Game 7)

I hoping to see the Red Sox and the Astros in the WS. Welcome home Roger, it's time to die.

ROFL.. amazing.

hadnt even thought of that.. that would be cool. but i'd still rather see the 'stros lose in the first round

The Yankees can barely beat Boston, what makes you think Atlanta can

C'mon Astros! Go Astros!

God, they've GOT to do something this year. For the love of all that's holy, let them get past the first round!