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I can now confirm what I subsconsciously knew when I wrote my "useless" predictions about the baseball playoffs only a short few days ago: most prognostications are just a random chance guess.  An entry headline where "Cubs Going Down in Flames" doesn't begin to tell someone how painful it has been to watch the NL's best regular-season team failing to deliver by any measure so far in the postseason.

One may want to blame all of this on a "curse", but the manner in which the Chic... Read More

I preface my writing with the knowledge that my predictions (for sporting picks in general) are correct slightly better than 50% of the time. Given my invested time in watching / analyzing baseball, though, my stats are only slightly better. Last season, I managed to pick four out of the six division winners and one of the wild card teams. For whatever reason, I didn't formally declare preseason picks this season. I can honestly say here's what I probably would have picked (in hindsight) had... Read More

Today's rainout gives the Red Sox a Sunday doubleheader to conclude the regular season and prepare for their postseason matchup with the angels that begins on Wednesday in Anaheim. The angels were given their choice of which series format they wanted to play (basically they chose whether they wanted to start on Tuesday or Wednesday), and they chose the extra day of rest to allow a 3 man rotation to be used in the series if they wanted to take that approach.

It would be a good idea fo... Read More

Angels fans are starting to get too big for their britches...Too cocky...Give me a break...K-Rod is on pace to shatter Bobby Pigpen's save record this year and this is the thanks he gets...Yes, Frankie is not Mr. 1-2-3...Yes, he blew his fifth save en route to an extra inning defeat Wednesday against the Mariners...But yes, pretty much every other team in baseball would give their eye teeth...Their ear teeth...Their nose teeth...And whatever teeth they have left to have K-Rod as their closer...T... Read More

Well, look at me... here I am on another website... you didn't think I had it in me, did ya... Well, two websites are better than one I guess... After more than a year at sportingnews.com... I have decided to add dimesports to my repertoire and I don't even know what a repertoire is and did I even spell it right???   Here's my latest release... For those of you who are newcomers to the dvt... SNORT is my alter ego who pops in from time to time IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS...

Thanks for tun... Read More