2008 MLB Post Season Bracket - Predictions Anyone?

by Stros Bro on Sep 28, 2008 8:37 PM CDT Comment 45 comments

Here's the bracket as listed on MLB.com. The playoff picture is set except for the Twins/White Sox section of the bracket which could be settled as early as tomorrow as the White Sox and Tigers play a make up game. If the White Sox win, then they and the Twins will have a 1 game play off to see who takes the AL Central crown. If the White Sox lose against the Tigers, then the Twins will take the AL Central.

I'm hoping the Twins win. I still have a sour taste in my mouth about the 2005 World Series, so lets just say I won't be rooting for the White Sox anytime soon.

I'm not a fan of the AL and really don't follow it too much... but I like the Rays(mainly because they are in their 1st winning season in their 10 year history) so I will definitely be rooting for them.

On the NL side... I guess I'm rooting for the Brewers. I don't think the Brewers are the best team and I think they will be eliminated in the 1st round(Sheets and his "broken arm" is just too much of a blow to overcome... even with Sabathia).

And on to my meaningless predictions.

NL Side
1st Round, the Phillies and Cubs will win with the Phillies beating the Cubs and going to the World Series. I think the Cubs are the better team, but I just don't think they go to the World Series this year.

AL Side
Red Sox and Rays advance to the 2nd round with the Red Sox advancing. Just a gut feeling... I don't think this year is as magical for the Rays as it has been so far and I think the Red Sox will overtake them... I hope I am wrong.

World Series
Phillies vs Red Sox... I hate to say it, but I think the Red Sox will win yet again... and I think they will do it in about 5 games.

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Cubs-Twins in World Series

Twins Win it all….Yes i am a Homer from Minnesota LOL

by Tony_O on Sep 28, 2008 9:02 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

If the Astros were in it..

you can bet your Ass I’d be saying they’d win it to :)

Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Sep 28, 2008 9:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

NLDS
Brewers over Phillies
Dodgers over Cubs

ALDS
Rays over White Sox/Twins
Angels over Red Sox

NLCS
Brewers over Dodgers

ALCS
Rays over Angels

SERIES
Rays over Brewers

I think the Rays are for real. I’ll be rooting for them to win the whole thing, and I’ll be rooting for the Cubs to get swept in the first round so I can laugh at all the idiot Cubs fans at Minute Maid next year. I’m already looking forward to it.

by jbotter on Sep 28, 2008 9:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

From the guy who thought Detroit Tigers would have best record in MLB

NLDS
Phillies over Brewers
Dodgers over Cubs

ALDS
Angels over Red Sox
Rays over White Sox/Twins

NL
Dodgers over Phillies

AL
Angels over Rays

World Series
Angels over Dodgers

I have absolutely no confidence in my predictions

Astros fan for life

by Joe in Birmingham on Sep 28, 2008 9:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm with you on the Tigers

I thought they were going to be a shoo in before the season started… what a disaster they were..

Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Sep 28, 2008 9:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Peter Gammons agrees with me all down the line

Jim Cagle too

Astros fan for life

by Joe in Birmingham on Oct 1, 2008 11:44 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

My Predictions

blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah
Phillies beat Brewers
Cubs beat Dodgers
blah blah blah blah
PHILLIES BEAT CUBS
and then I don’t care what happens after that.

Alright, time to deport Bourn.

by rastronomicals on Sep 28, 2008 9:39 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Will you be watching any post season baseball?

I will probably watch some… but I won’t be planning any nights around watching it..

Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Sep 28, 2008 9:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sure

I’ll be rooting against the Cubs until they lose, at which point I’ll lose interest

I might turn on a few AL games . . . and then I’ll probably turn them off again. But, you know, if there’s a classic unfolding I wanna have the opportunity to check it out.

But beyond the sheer joy I’ll take in ANOTHER Cubs failure, I don’t have a lot emotionally invested in any of the teams, and if the Cubs don’t make the Series, it’ll probably be the first since ‘02 that I won’t watch.

Alright, time to deport Bourn.

by rastronomicals on Sep 28, 2008 9:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

'Course Now That I Think Of It

I caught about 5 innings of the ’05 WS—but I certainly had INTENDED to watch more.

Alright, time to deport Bourn.

by rastronomicals on Sep 28, 2008 9:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

heheh

I’m with you…

I care more that the Cubs lose than I do that any other team wins.

Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Sep 28, 2008 10:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good Lord, I don't like any of the NL teams

Phillies over Brewers (all the brewers have is good hitting and one awesome pitcher; Phillies have that and more)
Cubs over Dodgers (unless something REALLY AWESOME happens)
Phillies over Cubs (screw Chicago)

Angels over Red Sox
Rays over Twins/White Sox
Angels over Rays

Angels win the WS over the Phillies. Phillies fans go on rampage, burn down city, kill Jimmy Rollins (and Donovan McNabb, for good measure).

The AL race is going to be boring as hell. Except for the Rays, I mean. And I don’t hold much hope for anything in the NL, either.

On the bright side, there are no NY teams playing in the postseason this year! And if the Red Sox and – to a lesser extent – the Rays are knocked out in the first round, I don’t know what ESPN is going to do.

by Only_A_Lad on Sep 28, 2008 10:17 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

ESPN will go off air

Imagine a Twins/Brewers World Series… HAHH!

Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Sep 28, 2008 10:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

and if Cubs out too.

Astros fan for life

by Joe in Birmingham on Sep 28, 2008 11:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

ermmmm!

Phillies beat the cubs. Rays beat the Red Sox.

Rays win the WS.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry

by TimStros on Sep 28, 2008 10:36 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

My two cents

NLDS:
Brewers over Phillies (I think it could go either way though)
Cubs over Dodgers

ALDS
Rays over Whoever they play
Red Sox over Angles

NLCS
Cubs over Brewers (It pains me to say that)

ALCS
Rays over Red Sox

Word Series
Rays over Cubs

The Rays are the team to beat in my opinion. They have the best starting rotation and solid offense. Combine that with their stellar defense, it’s going to be hard for any team’s offense to get the upper hand on them. Finally, they have a great bull pen in terms of depth and quality. The Cubs are down Z, but they have Harden and Lilly. The Brewers, at this point have Sabathia and no bull pen.

A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.

by DyingQuail on Sep 29, 2008 12:16 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

second

this.

by HighLeveragePerformer on Sep 29, 2008 11:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Such Animosity Towards the Lovable Cubbies???

I’ve been a Cubs fan my whole life. I watched them, year after year, lose. And lose. And lose.

All the hatred from the Astros fans and others is ridiculous.

What is there to hate? It’s not like the Cubs have won the World Series five times in a row or anything.

Anyway, here’s my equally-slanted predictions:

NLDS:

Phillies over Brewers in five games. Sabathia will pitch three times, in games one, three and five, but will finally collapse with a torn meniscus in game five.

Cubs over Dodgers in four. Come on! Anyone who picks the Dodgers over the Cubs is just filled with bitter jealousy! The Cubs have the best 4-man rotation in the bigs and the near-highest batting average in the National League as well as most runs scored.

ALDS

Twins over Rays in 5. The Rays’ run is over. Lots of great wins, but it’s time for the collapse.

Angels over Red Sox in 5. Same thing. Angels are too deep and rested.

NLCS

Cubs over Phillies in six. Same reasons as above. The Phillies were lucky to make the playoffs (read Mets huge choke again).

Angels over Twins in six. The Twins were also lucky just to be there.

World Series

Wish I could pick the Cubs, but that’s too much good karma even for me.

Angels in seven.

But, the Cubs will make the World Series, like it or not. The other three NL teams might win a two of three, but not 3 of 5 or 4 of 7. Ain’t gonna happen this year.

Go Cubs go!!!

by GoCubs! on Sep 29, 2008 2:46 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I picked Dodgers over Cubs and not for jealously

I see Manny Ramirez and Jeff Kent energizing the Dodgers. Those guys live for post -season play.

As for as being jealous of the Cubs, nah. I lived in Chicago for two seasons. Walked to Wrigley a couple of times a month to catch games, especially when the Astros were in town. Even went a couple of White Sox games. (also lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years). Wrigley Field is the best park in the world to watch a game. Dodgers announcer Vince Scully is the best announcer.

I picked the Dodgers because I sense they will win. I decided they’d make the World Series before I knew the pairings.

Astros fan for life

by Joe in Birmingham on Sep 29, 2008 8:38 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why do some of us hate the Cubs?

Maybe it’s the fact that year after year we went to Cubs-Astros games where we Astros fans were outnumbered in our own park by bellowing ex-pat Chicagoans. If they love the city so much, why don’t they live there?

Oh, and Ike.

Hi, my name is Rich and I'm an Astroholic.

by Austin Astroholic on Sep 29, 2008 12:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

in a thread at a Cubs blog

there were several people calling the Astros a bunch of crybabies because they had to go to Miller Park while their families, friends and loose ends of their lives were in a crazy and difficult time.

There are numerous disparaging names they use for Minute Maid but somehow Wrigley is historic wonderfulness.

Ah, I better stop now…

by ol Pete on Sep 29, 2008 1:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's Not the Cubs It's The Cub Fans

Big fan of the Mordecai Brown-era Cubs, love Wildfire Schulte and Frank Chance and the rest, so yeah, it ain’t the franchise I’ve got an issue with.

First off, all baseball fans are basically the same, everyone bitches about the strike zone for their starter, everyone’s got a crappy bullpen and a bench guy who doesn’t get it done. Everyone except one team either misses the playoffs or loses their last game of the year, and more likely than not, that team’s gonna lose their last game the year after.

So when I hear anyone start to tell me how they’ve got the best team, or they’re the best fans (like the ones from St. Louis invariably do) or the most-starcrossed, unlucky, wowzy-wowzy-woo-woo, like the Cubs’ fans do, I tend to think they’re full of shit. Way too self absorbed, lacking the proper zen balance for the appreciation of the game of baseball.

Hey Cubbies, Astros haven’t won a World Series either. And you know what, we gripe about it, but we don’t expect to be made movie stars over the whole fucking thing.

Second, you guys made a hero out of that phony Sammy Sosa. That flag shit, that pumping chest shit, made me sick, it was so inauthentic, Sammy was all about Sammy, and you guys were credulous enough to swallow the story hook line sinker. And of course you had to go out and con the national media and everything, so I couldn’t even watch a Saturday game on Fox without losing my freaking lunch.

Y’all finally figured it out about him, guess what? Five years too late.

3) The cats and the goats, what is it with that? I mean I like history; I like the story, I saw the picture of the black cat in the batting circle the other day while the Mets dude looked on, cool. But something about how you’ve turned this goofy stuff into some kind of half-assed mythology bugs me. It’s color, for christs sake, it’s backdrop, it’s not the Holy Bible. You all lack . . .proportion.

4) Ron Santo is not going to the Hall of Fame, already. Please stop asking.

5) I’m still pissed at Ryan Dempster for saying what he did about the Astros and their players in the wake of Ike. The league is pampering him and his team, clearly going out of its way to aid the marquee draw, and he has the audacity to suggest that the Astros are crybabies, while the Gulf Coast is in shambles bheind the long shadow of a dangerous storm.
Hope he chokes on it big time this postseason, that karma does its tidy work.

Give me a break, I’d rather see the Dodgers win, or the fucking Mets, before the Cubs.

Here’s to another century. . . . .

Alright, time to deport Bourn.

by rastronomicals on Sep 29, 2008 10:43 PM CDT up reply actions 6 recs

Wow

…best…post….ever

by Xan on Sep 30, 2008 1:00 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Truly inspiring.

by DyingQuail on Sep 30, 2008 10:17 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Beautiful

“Hey Cubbies, Astros haven’t won a World Series either. And you know what, we gripe about it, but we don’t expect to be made movie stars over the whole fucking thing.”

No shit. Anybody who blames anything on a fucking “curse” is either a self-absorbed douche or a mental defective.

And we need to frame this post or something.

by Only_A_Lad on Sep 30, 2008 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Classic

I laughed, I cried…I wrote my first CFB post…

by jepoole on Sep 30, 2008 4:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

A particularly poetic and pulchritudinous post

; )

by Danyah on Sep 30, 2008 6:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

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Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Sep 30, 2008 7:41 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Wow

never even noticed that option

by Xan on Sep 30, 2008 9:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow again

I just realized my post just a few up had the subject “Wow” as well. I guess I’m bowled over a lot. Or just really un-creative and/or prone to exaggeration.

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Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Oct 1, 2008 7:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

My Prediction

ALDS
Angels over Red Sox
Rays over ethier Twins or White Sox

ALCS
Angels over Rays

WS
Cubs over Angels

NLCS
Cubs over Phillies

NLDS
Cubs over Dodgers
Phillies over Brewers

by WSAstrosfanWS on Sep 29, 2008 6:21 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

and..

I am an Astros fan hardcore. But Halo’s and the Cubbies are the best teams. No doubt. It will be an interesting World Series like that.

by WSAstrosfanWS on Sep 29, 2008 6:22 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

My name is Astroholic...

… and I approve these predictions.

Hi, my name is Rich and I'm an Astroholic.

by Austin Astroholic on Sep 29, 2008 12:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have to go back and look at my preseason predictions...

that should be an interesting few moments before I realize I got it 100% wrong.

Anyway, Phils over Cubs, Angels over Rays.

Angels win in 5 or 6.

Yes, I am a nerd.

by TexSkins on Sep 29, 2008 12:38 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

White Sox just scored FIVE runs on ONE hit

lead 6-2 in the 6th inning
and still batting

Astros fan for life

by Joe in Birmingham on Sep 29, 2008 6:26 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yes

Because scoring 5 runs, when there is 4 basemen including the batter makes sense.

by WSAstrosfanWS on Sep 29, 2008 11:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

biggest bust of the year

any way you wanna cut it: the Detroit Tigers

by HighLeveragePerformer on Sep 29, 2008 7:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

hmm

Dodgers have a better team ERA than the Cubbies, but probably not the offense to get it done. Cubs over Dodgers

Phillies over the Brewers. Better bullpen, playing better down the stretch. Oh and the Phils are 5-1 on the season against the Milwaukee.

Rays over ChiSox/Twins. Pitching and defense prevail, and I can’t imagine the Tuesday game helping much.

Angels over BoSox. Mostly just really want to see the Sox bounced in the first round, but the Angels have an 8-1 record on the season against Boston.

Will be pulling for the Phillies to shut up all the destiny talk, but I do think the Cubs are probably the better team. I’ll say Cubs keep the suspense going.

Rays/Angels will be a good series, and I’ll go out on a limb and say the Rays continue the unthinkable turnaround.

I’ll go with Rays over Cubs. They swept ’em in June and are just a nice feel-good story (as is a Cubs flop).

If the timing is right, I might be in Chicago during the WS. I wouldn’t mind seeing the carnage first-hand.

by littlevisigoth on Sep 30, 2008 3:50 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Did anybody without a rooting conflict of interest

pick the White Sox -Twins game?

ESPN makes White Sox heavy favorites.

Game is tied 0-0 in the bottom of the third inning.

Astros fan for life

by Joe in Birmingham on Sep 30, 2008 7:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm guessing the White sox win

just because they fought off elimination and haven’t been sitting at home waiting.

Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Sep 30, 2008 7:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

White Sox win 1-0

Before the last out of the game Ozzie Guillen frantically waved his outfielders in. The last batter popped one into short center and even playing in, the fielder (Griffey?) had to make a diving catch.

Astros fan for life

by Joe in Birmingham on Sep 30, 2008 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Anderson made the last catch not Griffey

Astros fan for life

by Joe in Birmingham on Sep 30, 2008 9:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Here's to both Chicago teams being eliminated in the 1st round

Go Dodgers/Rays!!

Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Sep 30, 2008 10:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

YESSSSSSSSS!!!

Dempster gives up the salami to Loney in Game One of the NLDS and is yanked in the fifth.

His WHIP’s a wreck, too, a TON of walks.

Awesome, the pampered, audacious bigmouth gets a major comeupance.

Alright, time to deport Bourn.

by rastronomicals on Oct 1, 2008 7:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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