Lakers Stinkin it up at home to begin 2012 season

What the heck is up with the Lakers anyway?  They dropped their 2012 home opener to Dallas, 99-91, after failing to win any pre-season games.  Fans have VERY high expectations for this team.  Kobe, Nash, Pau, Howard, and Meta should be the best starting 5 in the league.  Better fix things on the road before showing their faces in LA again.

Kobe has plenty of help in 2012.  No excuses this year.

GIANTS Stand Tall and Surge Into World Series

I was amazed by the San Francisco Giants as they won the final three games of the ALCS and took the National League Pennant.  Now, after the first two games of the World Series, they hold a 2-0 lead on the Tigers heading into Game 3, in Detroit, on Saturday.  

Once has to think that the Tigers are too good of a team to just roll over and give it away to the Giants, but then they said that about the Yankees in the ALCS.  

I love this game.  You can never predict what will happen based on what has gone before.  

MLB Wild Card Games. Orioles and Cardinals Fly High

The Birds won the wild card games, much to my surprise.  Just goes to show that I don't always get my way.  I chose the wrong teams in both games; however, I do look forward to the Division Contests.  Just not the teams that I wanted to watch.  The St. Louis Cardinals think they can repeat last year's amazing run to the finish. I think not, but that, as we know, means absolutely nothing.

Playoff Baseball Like It or Not

Today, in the American League,Texas Rangers vs Baltimore Orioles with winner to meet the Yankees.  For the Rangers, a final chance to redeem themselves from the disastrous WEEK that ended their regular season.  For the Orioles, a chance to earn an opportunity to meet their nemesis Yankees head-on, instead of hoping spoiler teams would propel them to the Division win.  My forecast: I think the Rangers will win today and take their rightful place as the powerhouse that was projected to be the League champion when the season began.  


Over in the National League, The Cardinals and the Braves will both bring the best to the mound and it could be a real duel to the finish.  I think the Braves are the better team and deserve another shot at the Nationals.  Braves should take this.

From the perspective of the Division winners, you have to beat everybody to win the League, but I don't much care for the system that puts two wild card teams into the playoffs.  I liked the old system.  I already think the 162 game season is too many games and that Major League Baseball lost some of its attraction when the World Series isn't played until well into the NFL season.

Starting Over

I have really neglected this sports blog and so I am really starting over (with the MLB playoffs). Gradually I will delete all previous posts that contain dated material, which is pretty much all of them.  Today, however, I will simply publish this and then get to work on substantive articles.