Waiting For Next Year

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   AndrewD

   October 19, 2012 at 5:35 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   So is Joe Giradi’s job safe? Which closer will the yankee’s go with next year-Soriano or Rivera?

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   slc1

   October 19, 2012 at 6:09 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Fucken Alex Rodriguez will get the heave ho. What a fucken choker.

   By the way, for the information of the fucken Yankee fan, wait till next year was the theme song of the Brooklyn Dodgers before they left for Tinseltown.

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   Trebuchet

   October 19, 2012 at 8:34 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Alex Rodriguez will get the heave ho. What a fucken choker.

   Just don’t send that asshole back to Seattle.

   I was actually rooting for the Yankees to go all the way so Ichiro could get his chance in the Series.

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   Historiann

   October 19, 2012 at 8:49 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   I’m impressed that you ran the broom for the Tigers’ sweep, too!

   (I grew up in Tiger country. You gotta give this Bad News Bears of a team a chance at the Series once every 30 years or so.)

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   trucreep

   October 19, 2012 at 9:10 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   GO TIGERS

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   Kevin

   October 19, 2012 at 9:36 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Good luck with next year.

   Too old, too little starting pitching, terrible bench. Every single once-good/great player on the decline. No player will have a “career year” next year for the simple reason that they’ve already had them.

   With the possible exception of Robinson Cano who might have 1 or 2 great seasons in him and 3 or 4 solid seasons in addition. Him I like a lot. Why isn’t he the face of the franchise?

   But the rest?
   Jeter: Done. Face it, this year was a big old fluke. And 39-year-olds coming off ankle surgery don’t bat .313. Not without a little chemical enhancement.
   A-Rod: Gone. And done, but irrelevant.
   Texiera: Mediocre.
   Ichiro: Way done. And probably gone, too.
   Granderson: Done.
   Martin: Done (5 straight years of declining batting average).

   Who’s left? Nick Swisher? A guy with almost as many career strike outs as hits? Raul Ibanez? A 41-year-old.

   They’ll have a tough time getting out of their division. Not that I expect Baltimore to repeat this year’s run. Nor will Oakland.

   Here’s my prediction:
   East: Rays
   Central: Detroit
   West: Rangers or Angels
   Wild Cards: Angels or Rangers/White Sox

   Rangers probably win the pennant. Nationals beat them in 7 (assuming Bryce Harper learns to lay off the sliders in the dirt).

   You heard it here first. All that’s left is to play the games.

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   bahrfeldt

   October 19, 2012 at 11:06 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   We Long Suffering Met Fans ® were saying that since a week after the All-Star break. 1987.

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   slc1

   October 19, 2012 at 4:15 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Re Kevin @ #6

   And they have Strasburg for the whole year. If he had been available in the playoff against St. Louis, the Nats might have won.

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   janeymack

   October 20, 2012 at 2:04 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Hey, there’s the broom!

   Better luck next year, Proffe! (Hey, I’m a Mariners fan, that tells you what kind of hard luck case I am.)

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    DSW

    October 20, 2012 at 3:44 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Oh it was so sweet, seeing them get swept.