No offense to Roman's boi Danny Mac, but I hate sports talk radio. Whenever I listen, the host can be heard saying things like "Well, I KNEW the Cubs would get swept in the first round!". Then you think to yourself, "no, no you didn't". But in radio, there is no way to prove these people are jokers. Is anyone really going to tape everything Mike North says, just so you so can rub it in his face four years later that he wanted Kris Humphries over Ben Gordon or Sebastian Janikowski over Brian Urlacher (both these things are true)? Of course not.
The far more noble profession of sports blogging, in turn, is much different. See those archives down the right side? They keep track of every word ever written in this space.
So lets dig back in those archives to visit baseball season one last time.
Check out this post. Roman wrote it on March 30, the day before the Cubs and Sox would kick things off. He gave his predictions, you gave yours. When the dust settled, the Cubs won 97 games, the Sox won 89. Let's take a look at what we predicted way back in March.
Roman sez: Cubs 87 wins, Sox 83
Ricky sez: Cubs 91, Sox 79
I believe Keith Lifetime Southsider came the closest: Cubs 95 wins, Sox 85
In retaliation, everyone's favorite FCP baseball antagonist Noles said: "95 wins is way too ambitious for the Cubs, 85 is way too ambitious for the Sox."
Did I miss anything else interesting? Scroll around in that predictions post. It's fun.
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I don't go by the number of wins or loses when making my predictions.
I believed, (as I always do) that the Cubs would be abject failures, and disappoint the fans with their soon to be patented choke.
Easy money.
I also believed that the Sox would be competitive, but that they didn't have the horses to go all the way.
They turned out to be a pleasant surprise.
At some point before the trade deadline, I predicted that the Sox would win their division (check) if they made a move (check), but not go very far in the playoffs (check). Right on all 3!!! Yay me.
I had Cleveland winning Sox 3rd, Had Milwaukee ,Cubs 2nd and had LAD
D-Backs 2nd....had Toronto wininng and Phillies and LAA in AL West
looking like Phillies vs BoSox..still want Rays to pull tru.
I plucked this bit of info from another source:
"Alfonso Soriano has hit .167 with one homer in 36 at-bats in nine career elimination games and Aramis Ramirez .077 in four career elimination games."
That's not a whole Helluvalot for the money, if you ask me.
In comparison, check out A.J.'s numbers:
"Even after Monday's 0-for-3, the White Sox catcher is a career .450 hitter in elimination games. Only Mickey Rivers (.550, 11-for-20) has done better among players with at least 15 at-bats in those situations."
Bout time I won something!
Cubs earned that regular season record. They have a quality club that just choked in the post season. They need a legitimate post season horse to pitch next year.
White Sox did exactly as we all thought they would. The Sox under achieved in 07 and came back strong with some key pickups thanks to Kenny. Beating back the Twins was ALL you could ask. Was a great season. We need 2 starters Kenny and some youth in center field. Time to promote Anderson. We also need some speed on the basepaths. Time to part with the slow-sluggers after next season. ONE more time Kenny, then get some youth and speed.
Yeah, I was way off but my post was funny. However, during the season, I was eerily correct that...
Zambrano was pitching in more pain than he was admitting (two days before the Cubs put him on the disabled list)
That it was crucial for the Cubs to win Game 1 in their series with LA or all the pressure and all the memories of 2007 would come rushing back (they didn't win and the horror showed played a repeat performance)
That Lou -- for all his alleged managerial savvy -- is not a very good post-season manager. Congrats Lou -- a $300M payroll and 0-6 in the playoffs.
Oh well, win some, lose some, eh Lou?