october test.

as always this week, this post is dedicated to melissa c. i hope she likes baseball.


notes:
al div. series.
•the tigers are young and good, but they're not that good. they jumped off to a ludicrous start then faded as the season wore on. for most of the season, detroit looked like it had the al central locked up; the fact that the tigers are the wild card is indicative of their fall (pardon the pun). it continues, as the veteran, preposterously talented yankee lineup sends the young, talented detroit pitching staff to the school of hard knocks. apparently the operative word in this paragraph is young, which is interesting, as the tigers cut dmitri young earlier this season. ironically, losing him made them even more young. i digress.

•oakland routinely stinks it up in the playoffs, while the twins are always frisky. but it will be close. i just have a feeling.

nl div. series.
•with or without pedro, the mets are the class of the nl. (they're now without, for those of you who are not american.) still, the dodgers are good for one game.

•sand diego and st. louis. who the hell cares; both these teams are crapola. but st. louis is prolly less crapola, despite recent struggles.

alcs. if the twins had a healthy liriano, instead of no liriano, this would be frightening (though not as frightening as a 5-game set). as it is, the twins are scary, but not as scary as that yankee lineup, which is a combination of talent on par with lennon/mccartney, watson/crick and ren/stimpy. yanks in six.

nlcs. the mets are good, the rest of the nl is crap. that's all you need to know. i give the cardinals a win b/c pujols will take one game singlehandedly.

ws. abiding the properties of algebraic division, we can eliminate the ny on both sides. we thusly strip away the fanfare of a subway series. we are left with a simple problem: yanks vs. mets. c'mon. yanks in six. cut that cigar.