# Place your WWAAAAYYY out there Baseball predictions here **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476 "2004-03-26T01:30:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/41 "2004-03-29T22:28:15Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > …\* Willie Randolph will finally get a well-deserved chance to manage… A sure way to all but guarantee all the Yankee’s demise predictions is to make him a manager. I haven’t seen any third base coach make as many bone-headed calls as he has. Torre’s gonna be around a few more years, so what I’d like to see as a ‘way out’ prediction: After Francona is fired by the Bosox front office for a dismal 20-61 first half of the season record, Willie Randolph is hired to manage up in Beantown. Boston goes on to finish the season 31-131 while the Yanks end the 2004 season at 110-52 after seeing the number of baserunners thrown out at the plate fall to near zero levels. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/42 "2004-03-29T23:01:00Z")
Possible… Brewer fever will sweep the nation as the plucky band of overacheivers falls just short of the playoffs. More likely… Brewer fever, like Smallpox, will be a disease that no longer exists on the planet as the Crew falls just short of winning 45 games. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/43 "2004-03-29T23:53:45Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Orioles go over .500 The O’s WILL go over .500. Just wait! You’ll all see! 😃 My way out predictions… O’s win 90. Yanks miss playoffs. Expos move to Monterrey, Mexico. Greg Maddux wins 25 and the Cy Young. Cubs win the series over Bosox. Cubs Win!!! Cubs Win!!! ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/44 "2004-03-30T03:12:29Z")
The World Series is won at Wrigley Field on a Cubs home run ball that strikes the scoreboard in center field. ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/45 "2004-03-30T03:39:18Z")
A-Rod and Jeter get into a fist fight between innings. Jeter wins by KO. Steinbrenner rolls Don Zimmer like Pedro did. David Ortiz pulls off the mask and reveals that he _is_, in fact, Mo Vaughan. Griffey manages to disembowel himself sliding into second. Any current major-leaguer will pee in a cup for the press. Philly fans go 30 minutes without booing. The Cubs’ rotation will include 4 20-game winners by the time they make it to the series. And lose. The Devil Rays resort to “Emus on the field” night to attract fans. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/46 "2004-03-30T05:16:11Z")
There _will_ be more sausage-bashing incidents. In the first, a player will hit one of the racing sausages with a bat. The sausages will proceed to beat him to a bloody pulp. In the second, Mike Piazza will be suspended for four games for tea-bagging the umpire. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/47 "2004-03-30T05:47:25Z")
One of the following will come true. My favorite team, The Texas Rangers will once again suck so bad they will be mathmatically eliminated on opening day. My favorite pitcher of all time, Charlie Hough, and my second favorite pitcher of all time, Nolan Ryan, will come out of retirement to lead the Rangers to the world series. E3 ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/48 "2004-03-30T07:10:36Z")
Cubs / Red Sox series. Game 7, bottom of the 17th. Both teams have used all their players, no subs are left on the bench. Jason Varitek gets to 2nd with 2 outs. Johnny Damon hits a single to left field. Moises Alou fields it cleanly, making a brilliant throw on the run to Paul Bako who blocks the plate as Varitek rumbles for home. The crowd is screaming at the top of their lungs, history is about to be made, all of America holds it’s collective breath, glued to their TVs as the drama plays out, one of these two teams will finally get off the schneid! Varitek crashes into Bako! It’s a tremendous impact! Bako and Varitek fall to the ground, both knocked unconsious by the force of their collision. The ball squirts from Bako’s glove and Varitek’s limp body comes to rest mere inches from home plate! What now, Mr Selig? ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/49 "2004-03-30T14:37:09Z")
Way out I know. Actually I don’t but I always like to support the underdog. I’m a Brit and this season want to start using a rather dull expat job to get into baseball via satallite TV. Frankly, still struggling with some of the detailed rules and the terminology having only started watching last World Series and being self taught but I am starting to see the point of the thing. Hopefully it will turn out to be as good as cricket! Hmmm, I can see that could be read both ways. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/50 "2004-03-30T14:44:54Z")
> [@notquitekarpov](#): > > Hopefully it will turn out to be as good as cricket! I like baseball a lot. I have read lots of books about it, watched lots of games, studied lots of statistics and feel I am not a baseball ignoramus but **nothing** is as good as cricket. I have always said that if I was only allowed to follow one sport for the rest of my life it would be cricket. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/51 "2004-03-30T14:48:55Z")
I forgot to boastfully add that I have played baseball and have a career batting average of 1.000 Yes my career was one game only. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/52 "2004-03-30T16:02:14Z")
Even though your screen name is ‘don’t ask,’ I am going to ask… Would your real name happen to be John Paciorek??? He played in just one game for the Houston Colt 45’s (now the Astros) in 1963. Three at-bats, three hits for a career batting average of 1.000. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/53 "2004-03-30T16:38:46Z")
Sorry no but the stats are the same. I played one game filling in with a team that was short, to help a guy I played cricket with. 3 at bats and 3 gentle singles. Having never played I treated it like cricket and just placed the ball past the infield without hitting it hard. I thought I was the only one in the world who had batted 1.000 My other claim to fame is AFL football where I averaged 32 goals a game (I think the best player in history averaged about 5) but I only played 1/4 of a game as a fill-in for a team that used to crush everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476/54 "2004-03-30T16:46:07Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > My favorite team, The Texas Rangers will once again suck so bad they will be mathmatically eliminated on opening day. Who are you kidding? They’ll be eliminated by… oh, say, two-thirty this afternoon. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-your-wwaaaayyy-out-there-baseball-predictions-here/236476.md?page=2)