Archives: March, 2008

Ev — March 31, 2008, 10:16 pm

NL West

For years, the NL West has been the crappiest division in baseball. With the Rockies and D-Backs in the NLCS last year, that appears to have changed. It’s a mystifying division to me, because I can’t figure out if there are three legitimately good teams or if Colorado and Arizona were really just mediocre teams […]

Ev — , 5:44 am

The NL

I’m running out of time on these, so before the season can start, I’m going to throw these out there and explain them later.
NL West:
SAN DIEGO
Arizona
Los Angeles
Colorado
San Francisco
NL Central:
MILWAUKEE
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Houston
Pittsburgh
NL East:
I still haven’t made up my mind on the East, which I think is going to be the tightest division […]

Ev — March 16, 2008, 4:25 am

AL East

I used to do the East last, but I guess when the Red Sox have won two world series in four years, it’s a little less important to pit the Red Sox and Yankees as a struggle between good and evil. Make no bones about it, the Yankees are still everything that’s wrong with everything, […]

Ev — March 11, 2008, 2:38 am

AL Central

There’s one thing I forgot to mention in the AL West predictions, of which Chuck’s comment reminded me: The Mariners are the perfect team to sign Barry Bonds. There’s just absolutely no way they would, but as he pointed out, they are rich in pitching but are going to struggle to score runs, have a […]

Ev — March 6, 2008, 6:52 pm

We’re Back! AL West Preview

No, HBWT is not dead! Instead, we’ll talk about a dead division, the AL West!
Well, maybe that’s not fair, but basically, there is one good team in the West, one team I think might be good, and two stinkers. Let’s start with them.
I went the other way last year and picked the As […]