Here it is, the time of year all you baseball fans have been waiting for, October, the month where one lucky team will be crowned World Series champion.
For the other unlucky seven, well, they can join the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros as World Series champs wannabes.
This year will see the Cleveland Indians taking on the New York Yankees in the first round of the playoffs, while the Boston Red Sox, who won the AL East this year will take on the L.A. Angels.
I’m predicting that the Yankees will defeat Cleveland in five and that the Angels will defeat the Red Sox in the first round of the playoffs in five games. Then L.A.’s Angels will defeat the N.Y. Yankees in the AL Championship Series in Six Games. The Angels will be the American League team in the World Series.
For the National League, in the first round Arizona’s Diamondbacks will be taking on the Chicago Cubs. While most people are probably taking Arizona in this series, I’ll take the Cubs, based on what I don’t know, other than the Cubs, who haven’t won the World Series since 1908, and are long overdue. They have not even been to the World Series since 1945.
In the other National League first round series Philadelphia Phillies will be hosting Colorado Rockies.
The Phillies will whip the Rockies in the first round. Then Chicago’s Cubs will whip the Phillies in six games.
This means the Cubs will advance to their first World Series since 1945. The Cubs will then win their first World Series in 98 years by defeating the Los Angeles Angels in six or seven games.
Keep in mind baseball fans, that this is just an opinion, so if the Cubs do win I’m not a genius, and if they lose I’m not a goat. But with all that’s gone on in baseball the last few years it would be great if the Cubs were to get the monkey off their backs, like the Boston Red Sox did in 2004, and the Chicago White Sox did in 2005 by winning their first World Series since 1917.
If Lou Pinella does a good job of managing and the Cubs pitching does it’s job, then get ready Chicago, you’ll be celebrating something that few people ever thought they would see, a Cubs World Series championship.
As Harry Carey, the late Cubs announcer, will probably be saying up in heaven, “HOLY COW.” If the Cubs actually do this, lots of Cub fans and non-Cub fans will probably be saying, “Holy Cow.”
I, for one, hope they get it done, because it will give Texas Ranger fans, Washington National fans, Cleveland Indian fans and other fans the hope that their team can soon win a World Series. Go Cubs, Go.
It will also erase the memory of four years ago, when in game six of the National League championship series, with the Cubs holding a 3 to 0 lead against the Florida Marlins and a 3 games to 2 advantage in the series, they let it slip away.
Cub defense was a major reason why they lost that series. Florida went on to win the World Series in 2003, and Cub fans have not forgotten.
This year will finally be their year.