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Friday, February 20, 2004
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Monday, March 24, 2003
Posted 2:42 PM by Tommy
Fearless forecasts for the 2003 baseball season:
-At the All-Star game, the teams are tied at the end of 14 innings. With no pitchers remaining on either team, commissioner Bud Selig decides to determine the winner by a coin flip.
-Oakland GM Billy Beane pulls off a three-way trade with the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals, acquiring both CF Carlos Beltran and P Mark Buehrle while only giving up some marginal prospects and magic beans. But the A’s lose in the first round in 5 games anyway.
-Barry Bonds hits his 661st career homerun on September 27th, passing Willie Mays for 3rd on the all-time list. The ball bounces to FiCB concession stand worker Fred Lee, who picks it up and dares himself to eat it. Told that the ball is worth $100,000, Fred looks into the TV cameras surrounding him and tries to swallow the ball whole, grossing out the American public in the process.
-Alex Rodriguez of the last-place Texas Rangers hits .350 with 65 HR and 160 RBI but fails to win his first MVP award. The AL MVP goes to Torii Hunter, who hits .300 with 35 HR and 110 RBI but is on the first place Minnesota Twins and is deemed to be "a positive clubhouse influence and an all-around scrappy player."
-The Los Angeles Dodgers squeak into the playoffs on the strength of NL MVP Shawn Green and NL Cy Young winner Eric Gagne. Manager Jim Tracy fields a starting lineup where Green is the only player to hit over .290, have over 20 HR, or have more than 85 RBI.
In Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, Green, suffering from a hamstring injury, limps up to the plate and smashes a dramatic walk-off homerun to send the Dodgers to the World Series. He does this on October 15th, the 15th anniversary of Kirk Gibson’s dramatic homerun.
-In Game 7 of the World Series, the Anaheim Angels employ the Rally Monkey in order to come back from a 7-0 fifth inning deficit and win their second consecutive championship. No Angels starter pitches for more than 5 innings in any of the seven games, but the Angels earn 6 playoff wins from rookie pitcher Bobby Jenks.
Monday, March 24, 2003
Posted 2:42 PM by Tommy
Fearless forecasts for the 2003 baseball season:
-At the All-Star game, the teams are tied at the end of 14 innings. With no pitchers remaining on either team, commissioner Bud Selig decides to determine the winner by a coin flip.
-Oakland GM Billy Beane pulls off a three-way trade with the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals, acquiring both CF Carlos Beltran and P Mark Buehrle while only giving up some marginal prospects and magic beans. But the A’s lose in the first round in 5 games anyway.
-Barry Bonds hits his 661st career homerun on September 27th, passing Willie Mays for 3rd on the all-time list. The ball bounces to FiCB concession stand worker Fred Lee, who picks it up and dares himself to eat it. Told that the ball is worth $100,000, Fred looks into the TV cameras surrounding him and tries to swallow the ball whole, grossing out the American public in the process.
-Alex Rodriguez of the last-place Texas Rangers hits .350 with 65 HR and 160 RBI but fails to win his first MVP award. The AL MVP goes to Torii Hunter, who hits .300 with 35 HR and 110 RBI but is on the first place Minnesota Twins and is deemed to be "a positive clubhouse influence and an all-around scrappy player."
-The Los Angeles Dodgers squeak into the playoffs on the strength of NL MVP Shawn Green and NL Cy Young winner Eric Gagne. Manager Jim Tracy fields a starting lineup where Green is the only player to hit over .290, have over 20 HR, or have more than 85 RBI.
In Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, Green, suffering from a hamstring injury, limps up to the plate and smashes a dramatic walk-off homerun to send the Dodgers to the World Series. He does this on October 15th, the 15th anniversary of Kirk Gibson’s dramatic homerun.
-In Game 7 of the World Series, the Anaheim Angels employ the Rally Monkey in order to come back from a 7-0 fifth inning deficit and win their second consecutive championship. No Angels starter pitches for more than 5 innings in any of the seven games, but the Angels earn 6 playoff wins from rookie pitcher Bobby Jenks.