Another Blog/MLB Prediction Review

been awhile for me. August 9 was the date of my most recent post, located at my first blog. I tossed in a couple sports opinions in that one, but I have decided to create this one solely for sports purpose, with heavy emphasis on professional football and professional baseball.

Here's the plan, at least until the conclusion of the NFL regular season.

Tuesday: NFL Power Rankings
Wednesday: MLB Offseason Review
Thursday: NFL Game Predictions
Friday: NBA Review
Saturday: "Franchise in Focus"
Sunday: NFL In-Game Comments
Monday: "Thought of the Week"

• "Franchise in Focus" will pick a sports franchise with a review of its past, present, and future.
• NFL In-Game Comments may not be posted
  

I'm not following the schedule until tomorrow, so as a start:

In my first blog, before the 2006 MLB season, I published the following baseball predictions.

Got the Yankees right, but flopped on the rest of the AL. The Tigers came out of nowhere, the Indians flopped despite their great finish to 2005, and though Toronto did improve to second in the AL East, past Boston, they missed out on the playoffs as well. Anaheim of course also failed. And, making the AL Central prediction even worse, the Wild Card came out of that division (and it wasn't the Indians!).

Meanwhile, the Braves division streak came to an end. St. Louis did indeed win their division. San Fran flopped, though as two NL West teams not from that city (Los Angeles, San Diego) made the postseason.

As for the World Series, I almost got that right (sort of), by virtue of the Cardinals coming one game from winning it all in the prediction. Of course, the Yankees fell to eventual AL flag winner Detroit, who represented the AL in the World Series.

As for awards (0 for 4), A-Rod flopped, Pujols almost won, Halladay got hurt, and Zambrano walked anyone who wouldn't swing.

Predicting sure is an inexact science.