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American League:
#2 Los Angeles (West) vs #4 Boston (Wild Card)
#3 Chicago (Central) vs #1 Tampa Bay (East)
National League:
#2 New York (East) vs #4 Milwaukee (Wild Card)
#1 Chicago (Central) vs #3 Arizona (West)
| Rank | Team | W | L | PCT | Division | 1 | Chicago Cubs | 85 | 55 | .607 | C1 | 2 | New York Mets | 79 | 61 | .564 | E1 | 3 | Arizona | 71 | 68 | .511 | W1 | 4 | Milwaukee | 80 | 60 | .571 | C2 | 5 | Philadelphia | 76 | 64 | .543 | E2 | 6 | St. Louis | 75 | 65 | .536 | C3 | 7 | Houston | 74 | 66 | .529 | C4 | 8 | Florida | 71 | 69 | .507 | E3 | 9 | Los Angeles Dodgers | 70 | 70 | .5 | W2 | 10 | Colorado | 66 | 75 | .468 | W3 | 11 | Cincinnati | 62 | 78 | .443 | C5 | 12 | Atlanta | 61 | 80 | .433 | E4 | 13 | San Francisco | 60 | 79 | .432 | W4 | 14 | Pittsburgh | 59 | 80 | .424 | C6 | 15 | San Diego | 54 | 86 | .386 | W5 | 16 | Washington | 54 | 87 | .383 | E5 |
| Rank | Team | W | L | PCT | Division |
| 1 | Tampa Bay | 85 | 53 | .616 | E1 | 2 | Los Angeles Angels | 85 | 54 | .612 | W1 | 3 | Chicago White Sox | 78 | 61 | .561 | C1 | 4 | Boston | 82 | 57 | .59 | E2 | 5 | Minnesota | 77 | 63 | .55 | C2 | 6 | New York Yankees | 75 | 65 | .536 | E3 | 7 | Toronto | 73 | 66 | .525 | E4 | 8 | Texas | 69 | 72 | .489 | W2 | 9 | Cleveland | 67 | 71 | .486 | C3 | 10 | Detroit | 67 | 73 | .479 | C4 | 11 | Baltimore | 63 | 76 | .453 | E5 | 12 | Oakland | 63 | 77 | .45 | W3 | 13 | Kansas City | 60 | 79 | .432 | C5 | 14 | Seattle | 54 | 85 | .388 | W4 |
Select a date:
New York
| W | L | GB | Mets | 79 | 61 | Yankees | 75 | 64 | 3.5 |
Baltimore/DC
| W | L | GB | Orioles | 63 | 76 | Nationals | 54 | 86 | 9.5 |
Chicago
| W | L | GB | Cubs | 85 | 55 | White Sox | 78 | 61 | 6.5 |
LA/Orange County
| W | L | GB | Angels | 84 | 54 | Dodgers | 70 | 70 | 15 |
SF/Oakland
| W | L | GB | Athletics | 63 | 75 | Giants | 60 | 79 | 3.5 |
1. Washington (8/31)
2. Seattle (9/1)
If a player needs a home run for the cycle, the level of the alert varies depending upon the determination of the Cycle Detection Warning System, which is headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
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After running a contest for the Pac-10 tournament, it's time to move up to the big leagues. It's time for a contest the pick entire the NCAA tournament.
And instead of doing it myself, I've left the work to Yahoo. Commenter bhsportsguy set up our first private group, which can hold up to 250 entries. If need be, there is a back up.
You can find the link at Yahoo Sports (it's rather obvious). You want to join a private group, 94308. The password is "griddle". (case sensitive)
With more teams in the field, the stakes have gotten higher. No mere $5 Amazon.com gift card. Nope, you get the greatest prize of all: bragging rights! I would promise to put the winner's name (or alias) on the sidebar for an entire year. Just think how much that would impress your kids/spouse/employer/parents/boyfriend/girlfriend/roommate. If someone is all of these to you, then you've should stop watching "Chinatown."
Scott Long over at The Juice blog has sponsored a contest before and he'll be letting you know about the previous winners and Scott will definitely have more opinions on the matter.
And now, thanks to my noncorporate sponsor, ToyCannon, there is a chance of an actual prize for the winner!
There are four choices that the winner may select from:
1) four tickets to a future Dodgers game, subject to negotiating with ToyCannon for which game. It would have to be a weekday game with no giveaways.
OR
2) a choice of one of three books:
"Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way" by Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt
"Nine Innings" by Daniel Okrent
"National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer" by Stefan Szymanski and Andrew Zimbalist
So, in addition to earning my unending respect and admiration, you can also help my clear bookshelf space! I have read all three books and they are all very good.
I hope...
If Oregon goes to the Final Four, I will spend a week in Oregon. I may even go to Burns!
Exxxcellent...
So who's who?
I really want to know who "Durant Will Beat Your Ass" is.
I then execute a plan to detonate a set of suitcase nukes throughout NW Indiana. I've picked up some pointers from watching "24"
He's playing a lot better defense than he was the first part of the year -- he had 6 blocks against Kansas yesterday, so he could go all Brook Lopez on the Trojans. They tend to play a lot of 2-3 zone with Durant playing at the top of the key, so even if you can drive around him he will block your shot from behind.
Someone really needs to tell them that it doesn't. At least not any of the USC fans I know.
I wonder about my fellow UCLA alums sometimes. They seem so... so .... I can't think of a good word.
I could see a lot of players' families. Aaron Brooks seems to like holding his baby daughter a lot. Brook Lopez went into the seats after Stanford was eliminated and looked to be crying on his mom's shoulder for quite a while.
Why, in the name of all that is holy, would you want to do something like that? I mean, I'd love to see the Ducks in the Final Four, but there's no reason for OREGONIONS to go to Burns....
Well, maybe not always.
Why not make two trips? It's so crazy it just might work...
Yes, quite easily. But I meant, why not make a trip to see a Duck basketball game in the winter, and a minor league baseball trip in the summer?
, to be replaced by a South Carolina trip.
Seriously, no, I have no other name, I just wish we had a better name.
My lady friend only goes to baseball games begrudgingly.
My mom evidently wasn't impressed. They got divorced 5 years later.
Being sick this weekend has doomed me to failure in the pool. How will I ever win those sweet, sweet bragging rights?
Presumably some people are waiting because they believe such matters take time.
I got 33 entries for the Pac-10 tournament contest, but that was 9 games and there was a cash prize at the end!
Deadspin appears to be writing (subcontracting for) a full multiparagraph write up of every game in the tournament.
Really, does the world need 60 lines on Boston College v. Texas Tech?
Well, this would be more succinct:
Dudley's cornrows bounce
Like a Catholic school skirt
And a chair takes flight
Calvin Murphy is 60
Bring the snake serum
However, I know that an entrant may be from outside of the L.A. metro area, so I'm open for suggestion as to what to get a winner from somewhere else.
Interest in that game would certainly skyrocket.
To me, the best solution would be to eliminate the automatic bid to the conference that started all of these problems the MWC. Of course, once the Big East splits, there will be a clamor for another play-in game to not cost the big guys an at large.
Someone has sounded the MWC Alarm! This will bring pain and misery on us all.
Call it the "Steve Fisher" game.
Too bad this wasn't an NIT bracket. That's something I REALLY care about.
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