Damn, beaten to the punch again.
Ah for the glory days of yesteryear. I tell ya, it’s enough to make you want to drink National Bohemian (well, almost).
MLB will decide what city they will move the Expos to. That decision will be made based on a careful analysis of all the prospective locations, with appropriate emphasis on which one offers the best long-term potential to help generate interest in the sport, even if it doesn’t offer the best short-term profit.
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Drug testing will be mandated for all MLB and asterisks will be placed next to Bonds and Sosa for their home run records.
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Congress will tell MLB to move the Expos to Washington or lose the special anti-trust exemption
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Mike Piazza will be traded to the Astros and become Roger Clemens’ best friend.
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Jeff Weaver will prove that he can be a good major league pitcher in any city not named New York.
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The Detroit Tigers will surprise everyone and take the AL Central this year.
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A fan will fall out of the upper deck in the new park in Philadelphia. He will be booed.
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Fox Sports will again spend the all-star game looking in vain for a player that cares about the home-field advantage angle.
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Willie Randolph will finally get a well-deserved chance to manage.
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Bartman will throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field. He will be booed.
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The Yankees and Astros will play in the World Series. The Yankees will light up both Clemens and Petitte.
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A pitcher will have a no-hitter going into the bottom of the seventh. He will stiffen up during the silly God Bless America break and give up 5 runs.
In all seriousness, I think the Tigers have a nonzero chance of finishing out of the cellar this year. The AL Central is no less a mess than it was last year, and the Tigers took a couple of steps toward something only a few notches removed from respectability in the off-season. They ain’t gonna come anywhere close to contention, but will anybody have a heart attack if the Indians lose 95 this year, and the Tigers lose only 90? Now, I’m not so foolish as to suggest there’s a bettable chance of this happening, but I won’t be shocked if it does.
You so crazy.
Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi will all look remarkably smaller and their home run totals will shrink to below 50 for the season.
Top of the ninth, Cubs are winning by 1 run, two out, nobody on, in seventh game of the world series at Wrigley. A line shot into the third baseline stands caroms off a hot dog vendor’s head, and flies back onto the field of play. A goat runs onto the field, grabs the ball in mid flight, and heads for center field. The goat slithers through a open door and out onto Waveland Avenue. A home run fisherman with a large net catches the goat, tosses the ball back over the bleachers onto the field. The left fielder catches the ball in flight and the batter is called out. Cubs win!!! Cubs Win!!!
A full-back will score three tries, all converted… you did say WAY out there…
Dude, these are things that might actually happen.
The SF Giants will not win any game, score any run, or hit any out during the entire season.
Fans will abandon baseball en masse for Curling
Ken Griffey, Jr., does not suffer a season-ending injury by June.
Originally Posted by JerH:
“MLB will decide what city they will move the Expos to. That decision will be made based on a careful analysis of all the prospective locations, with appropriate emphasis on which one offers the best long-term potential to help generate interest in the sport, even if it doesn’t offer the best short-term profit.”
furt my man, I think JerH was trying to make a point using sarcasm, in that he thinks (and I agree with him) is that what the Lords of Baseball will most likely really do vis a vis the Expos is to go for the biggest short term buck regardless of the long term market potential.
Home of Dime-a-Dog night. Woo!
Hey, I have a longstanding bet with a Tiger fan friend of mine. The fan of the team that does better (Indians vs. Tigers) has to buy the other fan a Coke.
He’s always willing to bet, so there’s at least one Tiger fan who thinks it’ll happen!
Mostly it’s that I live near DC, and I’ve been watching MLB jerk us (and the other cities) around for 2 years, and it doesn’t look like they’re in any damn hurry to make a decision. And even if they do, it’s looking like they’ll end up picking the city that gives them the most money and the best stadium deal (as long as its not DC, because if they did that then DCers might stop going to O’s games).
(Of course, I really just want the Expos in DC so that I don’t have to drive several hours to see my beloved Pirates a couple times a year.)
I predict that I’ll go to a Pirate game, spend too much money, watch them win a game and there will be no sausage-bashing.
**Airman Doors **beat me to my first prediction.
Eric Milton will win the NL Cy Young, but the Phils will lose the NLCS to the Cubbies.
The Cardinals will beat the Padres in seven games to win the NLCS.
The Rangers will not finish last in the AL West.
Ben Grieve will resurrect his career in Milwaukee and be the Brewers All-Star representative.
You forgot the part where Jesus comes back to judge the living and the dead.
“Your 2004 World Champion San Diego Padres!!”
Oh yeah…
The Detroit Tigers will win the World Series, giving Alan Trammell his second WS ring (to go along with the one he won as a player in that long ago and far away season of 1984)!
I don’t think it could get any farther out than that.