What's up dogs.  Lately some folks here have expressed a strong desire to read my very own thoughts on the subject of baseball here in the diary column.  Well, far be it from me to deprive such intellectual pleasures from you all.  And seeing as how it is the day after the Super Bowl, the true beginning of baseball season (if you believe life begins at conception, which it MAY OR MAY NOT DO), here are my EARLY predictions!  

AL East

1. Boston
   
2. New York Yankees
   
3. Toronto
   
4. Tampa Bay
   
5. Baltimore (sorry. not really)

1. Cleveland
   
2. Chicago White Sox*
   
3. Minnesota
   
4. Detroit
   
5. Kansas City

1. Oakland
   
2. Anaheim
   
3. Seattle
   
4. Texas

1. New York Mets
   
2. Atlanta
   
3. Philadelphia
   
4. Washington
   
5. Florida

1. Milwaukee (yeah)
   
2. St. Louis*
   
3. Chicago Cubs
   
4. Houston
   
5. Pittsburgh
   
6. Cincinnati

1. Los Angeles
   
2. San Diego
   
3. San Francisco
   
4. Arizona
   
5. Colorado

St. Louis 3, New York 2
Milwaukee 3, Los Angeles 2

Boston 4, Oakland 3
Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 2

Boston 4, Milwaukee 1 (omg)

AL MVP:  Eric Chavez
AL Cy Young: Johan Santana
AL Rookie of the Year: Francisco Liriano

NL MVP:  Carlos Delgado
NL Cy Young:  Ben Sheets
NL Rookie of the Year:  Prince Fielder