Your AL East "Preview"
All right, whether you're ready for it or not, baseball is starting Sunday night. (The Mets will watch the Cardinals raise their World Series title flag. The Cardinals won the World Series last year.) The full slate of games kick off Monday, so we figured it was time to start previewing some divisions. Three today, three tomorrow, with hopefully your predictions as well, because, as you all know, we're terrible at predictions.
Anyway, we're doing the AL today, starting with the AL East. Here's last year's predictions.
1. New York Yankees. Carl Pavano's winning 23 games and the Cy Young. And then he will never pitch again. 2. Boston Red Sox. Look, in that picture, Dice-K unleashes his new "levitation ball." So many cool things in Japan. 3. Toronto Blue Jays. Frank Thomas looks so weird in a Blue Jays uniform; not that he particularly looks all that great in anything. 4. Baltimore Orioles. If Sammy Sosa hits 40 homers this year, we do not blame Baltimore fans for whomever they decide to punch. 5. Tampa Bay Devil Rays. boom bitch.
So come on, everybody ... it's baseball season! Really!
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