OK so since the season is less than one week away I figure try to get a survey going of who will win what this year. I'd put it in some kind of poll but there would be too many questions. So We'll do division winners, wild card, league champs, WS champs, league MVPS and league Cy Youngs.

AL East:
AL Central:
AL West:
AL Wild Card:
AL Champs:
AL MVP:
AL Cy Young:

NL East:
NL Central:
NL West:
NL Wild Card:
NL Champs:
NL MVP:
NL Cy Young:

WS Champs:

Mine are

AL East: New York Yankees
AL Central: Cleveland Indians
AL West: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim aka Identity Crisis
AL Wild Card: Boston Red Sox
AL Champs: NY Yankees
AL MVP: David Ortiz
AL Cy Young: Randy Johnson

NL East: Atlanta Braves
NL Central: St. Louis
NL West: LA Dodgers (I have no idea, its most up for grabs with Bonds out)
NL Wild Card: New York Mets
NL Champs: St. Louis
NL MVP: Albert Pujols
NL Cy Young: Tim Hudson

WS Champs: St. Louis

what is there to predict? the cubs are gonna win it all

AL East: no clue
AL Central: no clue
AL West: no clue
AL Wild Card: no clue
AL Champs: no clue
AL MVP: no clue
AL Cy Young: no clue

NL East: philadelphia
NL Central: chicago!!!!!!!
NL West: san diego
NL Wild Card: new york mets
NL Champs: cubbies!
NL MVP:
NL Cy Young: kerry wood

WS Champs: chicago cubs!

What since the Sox could do it so could you guys? lol. Better hope Prior and Wood stay healthy for once to have ANY chance

New York Yankees= World Series Champs

MLB Champs = Chicago Cubs

yep... nothing else matters

Bah you guys are no fun.

I can fairly safely predict that the BlueJays will do better that last season. Mind you, that's not saying much...

being a mets fan, i just have to inform you all that they will be winning the series this year

Though I agree with BroChaos, I'll fill in the rest for fun so here goes:

AL East: New York Yankees
AL Central: Minnesota Twins
AL West: Anaheim Angels
AL Wild Card: Boston Red Sox
AL Champs: Anaheim Angels
AL MVP: Vladimir Guerrero
AL Cy Young: Randy Johnson

NL East: Atlanta Braves
NL Central: St Louis Cardinals
NL West: Giants w/Bonds, Padres without
NL Wild Card: Chicago Cubs
NL Champs: Chicago Cubs
NL MVP: Albert Pujols
NL Cy Young: Carlos Zambrano

WS Champs: Chicago Cubs

Blue Jays going all the way this year!!!

im like a leafs fan for baseball

I'm a Mets fan too, but be realistic man. I'll be happy just making the playoffs. If they somehow win a series great but for me just making it would be an accomplishment in light of recent years.

AL East: boston
AL Central: cleveland
AL West: anaheim
AL Wild Card: yankees
AL Champs: yankees
AL MVP: A-rod
AL Cy Young: i'm not sure.

NL East: atlanta
NL Central: st. louis
NL West: san fran.
NL Wild Card: chicago
NL Champs: st.louis
NL MVP: albert pujols
NL Cy Young: roger clemens

WS Champs: st. louis

AL East: NY Yankees (i hate them !)
AL Central: Chicago White Sox (i hate them even more !)
AL West: L.A. Angles (still not used to their new name)
AL Wild Card: Boston
AL Champs: NY Yankees (I hope I'm wrong)
AL MVP: Alex Rod
AL Cy Young: No idea but a guess would be Randy Johnson

NL East: Florida (look out for them)
NL Central: Chicago Cubs (lots to prove & they will succeed)
NL West: SF Giant's
NL Wild Card: Philadelphia
NL Champs: Chicago Cubs
NL MVP: Aramis Ramirez or Nomar (probably Nomar)
NL Cy Young: Carlos Zambrano

WS Champs: Chicago Cubs ! 7 games & they win in NY against Randy Johnson with Aramis being MVP of series.

Cubs better sign Aramis Ramirez to an extension today, he'll be pretty pricey and well wanted after this year. He's not even on top of his game and will be the best 3rd baseman in MLB in a couple of years, offense & defense.

I hope the Florida Marlins win's again

Oakland A's all the way baby this is our year?

WS: Braves & Yankees

$%@#&*^ Mets' bullpen. Wasted a gem by Pedro. Gonna be the achilles heel all year unless they get some serious help. And Looper was the one who was supposed to have the LEAST questions marks out of that pen. Didn't record an OUT!! Just 14 PITCHES to blow the game. AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!

Just had to let that out. And I'm a pessimist. Not giving up on the season or anything yet lol, but that was a brutal loss. And I know it's only one game but the Mets have no bullpen and it jsut concerns me seriously. I mean to see your big weakness exposed in game one that blatantly is worrying. And again, GETTING to Looper was supposed to be the real concern, he was supposed to be fine.

Only if you have Steve Bartman in the stands

danniboi, this might interest you.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2029681
Looks like you got your wish.

Thx bigbluepride35 Now he can think about winning a World Series for the Cubbies

yankees win the world series, and hideki matsui is mvp of AL with the big unit taking home another cy young

i don't really care about anything else

cubs on a roll baby! great start to this year!

i`d like to see the tribe win the central this year,but only if thier pitching comes around. thier young and hungry! in the end it`ll be the yankees winning it all again

ok, i took the liberty of renaming this thread. from now on, all mlb talk will be in here

OK no ranting this time because I'm in too good a mood (see sig). But the reason why that Mets' game was SO devastating was because everything went unbelievably well until that 9th inning. Reyes went 3-5 with 2 2Bs, Beltran 3-5 1 HR 3 RBIs, Floyd 3-5 1 HR 2 RBIs. And of course Pedro's line was great 6 IPs, 3 Hs, 3 Rs, 2 BBs, 1 HR, 12 Ks. He made one bad pitch all game. At one point he struck out 10 out of 11 batters. It just SUCKED to lose a game like that.

Pinalimabingbang

Did anyone read that article, on ESPN.com I think, about the Dodger's making fun of the Angels?

They're selling T-shirts that say "Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles" and during one of their ST games they put an old Angels logo on the on deck circle.

hahaha, thats pretty funny. the whole thing is pretty stupid.
i don't know why anaheim feels it is necessary to take fans from LA county.
they change the name just so people in LA feel related to them, plus all the billboards and adverisement i see (and i'm in LA, not anaheim) is actually for the angels.

Oakland A's
0-1

I love for Oakland to do well this year ripgut but i have to admit that it looks pretty grim for A's fans

Didn't expect Smoltz to get rocked like that.
1.2 IP
6 H
7 R
6 ER
2 BB
1 SO
I HR
Not a good line. Good news for me though. Of course it IS one game. But after yesterday I needed something to cheer me up about baseball and that hit the spot

AL East: New York Yankees (easily)
AL Central: Detroit Tigers (with Percival and Mags, they will be the best of the worst)
AL West: Los Angeles Angels (Colon and GA will rebound and they will win it all)
AL Wild Card: Boston Red Sox (They had their year and now it's back to 2nd best)
AL Champs: Los Angeles Angels (see above)
AL MVP: Vladimir Guerrero (The best pure player out there and all w/o steroids)
AL Cy Young: Randy Johnson (He might get 30 wins this year if he stays healthy)

NL East: Florida Marlins (Beckett's and Burnett's health is key, but they look awesome)
NL Central: Saint Louis Cardinals (My favorite NL team is just too good not to get there)
NL West: San Diego Padres (Whether or not Barry is back, SD will win the west)
NL Wild Card: Chicago Cubs (If the arms are healthy, they could challenge St. Louis)
NL Champs: Saint Louis Cardinals (see above)
NL MVP: Albert Pujols (Best offensive player I've ever seen)
NL Cy Young: Ben Sheets (Best pitcher in the NL last year, should do it again, and get recognized this time)

WS Champs: Los Angeles Angels over the Saint Louis Cardinals in six (2 seas of red)

we taking it all the way....

OK so the Mets are off to an 0-4 start (worst since 1964) and I'm officially entering angered/panic mode. *&@^!$#!^#&*%#^ Just had to get that off my chest . Only other undefeated team is Pittsburgh. Last place in the NL East. I should be used to it by now.

They're the mets. Not like we expect anything from them. On the other hand, the freaking yanks just got killed by the damn orioles!

METS:
:cough: Mo Vaughn :cough:

O I'll help you there. Mo Vaughn, Bobby Bonilla, Roberto Alomar, Jeremy Burnitz,. . . . not to mention trading Nolan Ryan. Trust me I know they've been retarded when it comes to roster moves.

mets are going nowhere this year, i'm sorry. they have 2 stars on their team but no team

My picks for final standings:

National League

Central

• ChiCubs
• St.Louis
• Milwalkee
• Cinn.
• Houston
• Pittsburg

West

• SF
• Arizona
• LA.D
• SD
• Col

East

• Florida
• Phiadelphia *wildcard
• Braves
• NY Mets
• Washington

American League

Central

• ChiWhiteSox
• Detroit
• Minn
• Cleveland
• KC

West

• LA.A
• Seattle
• Texas
• Oakland A's

East

• NYY
• Boston *wildcard
• Baltimore
• TampaBay
• Toronto

Mets win!!! Mets win!!! Mets win!!! Sorry lol. Great pitcher's duel (thought the final score might not suggest it). Pedro: 9 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 9 k, 0 HR. And it only took him 101 pitches (72 of which were strikes). Smoltz: 7.1 IP, 8 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 15 K, 1 HR. Tough to lose after pitching like that. If he were on any team other than the Braves I'd feel bad for him.

that smoltz/pedro matchup yesterday was great.. for 7 innings.. made me sick watching it end like that.. oh well. i'm very excited about this atlanta team.. lots of enthusiasm all around.. and it even looks like chipper gives a damn for once

sox are about to get their WS rings in an hour or so.. ill be in class though , really wanted to watch that

Another steroid suspension. Of course, still no superstars have been caught.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2034778

although it does show how widespread the problem is...

Anyone see the Yanks-Red Sox team introductions today? When Rivera was announced the Sox fans gave him a standing O. He took the sarcastic cheer EXTREMELY well with a huge grin and even tipped his hat to the crowd. I found it amusing. Good for him for rolling with the punches. He's the one Yankee player I find it hard to root against. O, and at the Mets' game a rotating billboard jammed with Pedro on it. Game got delayed until they fixed it. He got a good laugh out of it. Hope he stays that happy all year.

So far, my prediction is doing rather well.

As of this moment, their .750 win percentage is the highest in both leagues.

Yea, like it'll last (or even 1st place in the AL East for that matter).

Still, I'm enjoying it while it does last.

Regarding the steroid suspensions so far. I think it shows a couple things. First, the testing is working to some degree. Second, not every major league slugger is taking this stuff. It's the fringe guys like Sanchez, the Rockies player, Benito Santiago, Jeremy Giambi, etc that think they can use it to stick around longer or play a little better to get the money. Also, I was reading that a number of scouts were amazed at the number of pitchers who had surprisingly lost velocity on their pitches. As much as the hitters could benefit, the pitchers would benefit a bit more I'd think. The pitchers only pitch, the hitter still has to make contact.

Pitching isn't about muscle mass nearly as much as creaming the ball is. Now granted, I agree you still have to swing the bat but pitching has less benefits to steroid use. Bulking up doesn't help pitch speed much. Randy Johnson isn't a steroid user and he's 41 and lanky and he still throws hard. Its more about arm speed. Now, I'm sure there are pitchers who do take them but I don't think they get benefited more than hitters.