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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

As posted on my Nachos Grande blog.

Milwaukee rolled into Cincinnati expecting to regain ground in the wild card race. After a string of poor performances, the brewers figured a series against the hapless Reds would be the remedy for their own sickening play.

Flash forward to Saturday night, the brewers tune has changed. On Friday, the brewers were on the wrong side of a fireworks show that rivaled anything China did during the Olympics. brewers outfielders probably complained of s... Read More