Dog Day Requiem: Analyzing the American League

By mw2828, Section MLB
Posted on Mon Jul 28 2008 at 7:55 AM EST
More on: MLB, American League, Mariner Moose (all tags)

The momentum builds now, we can practically touch and taste the heightened tension, as Mike Lowell's rage literally lifts him skyward, and Ryan Braun icily eyes down a game deciding moon shot, preening as he plays an action movie assassin. Oh yes, the merciless dog days have arrived.

God bless us, everyone.

For there are trades to celebrate, executives to excoriate, victories to relish and heinous losses so hellish... prepare for sensory overload, a hypnotic season's mysteries unwinding by the inning. In Spring Training, the contenders and pretenders gathered, surrounding palm trees swaying, whispering the impossible. Reality intervenes in April, the distilled winter chill slicing and dicing through the Opening Day pomp and circumstance, delivering winners and losers, preparing us for the grind ahead. What has happened to the thirty elite? Who rises or falls, disappoints or enthralls?

Shall we consider:

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MLB 2007: American League Standings Predicted Far Too Early

By yongi, Section MLB
Posted on Sat Mar 17 2007 at 11:25 AM EST
More on: baseball, mlb, al, american league, predictions (all tags)

Tea leaves. The I Ching. Extispicy. PECOTA. You name it, I've looked at it in my utterly insane efforts to predict the outcome of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, beginning even before pitchers and catchers reported to camp. Why on earth am I doing this? The answer, in a nutshell, is simply because I can. Do I have any hope that my predictions will turn out to be true? Not really. Still, I might be on to something here. Or, at the very least, it gives us a place to start talking about the upcoming season.

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