NFBC Message Boards

Any baseball season that has the Chicago Cubs holding the best record on June 2nd has to be categorized as crazy, right? While trying to assess the first two months of the MLB season, I tried to come up with some kind of catch-word, but I couldn't come up with one. Would you choose:



Bizarro (Sports Illustrated used that one last week)

Mind-boggling

Injury-riddled

Surprising

Cubs Fever - Catch It!!



From a fantasy perspective, it's been interesting with so many players starting the year on the DL and then April being injury-riddled. May brought us a little more stability and some fun with Max Scherzer, Evan Longoria and Jay Bruce making impacts as rookies. June is sure to bring more heat to the pennant races and plenty of fun before the All-Star break.



Help me summarize the first two months of the season if you can and predict what will happen over the next four months of the season. Can the Cubs really win the pennant??

Catch phrase that best describes the season so far..."WTF '08"



What will happen in the rest of 2008? Things will generally normalize:



1) Some of the hot rookies will go through some August and September swoons (Cueto, Scherzer, Volquez, Hamilton), Kershaw will be in the minors in September, and Bruce will actually miss a pitch.

2) Chase Utley will lead the league in HR with 48 (pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease) and will challenge the triple crown missing only BA. NL MVP.

3) Scott Kazmir will win the AL Cy Young (pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease 2)

4) Mets, D'backs, and Cubbies win their division. Phillies are the wild card. Mets in the World Series.

5) Cleveland, LAA, and Boston win their divisions. TB (this one is for you Patrick) is the wildcard.

6) Mets and Cleveland in the WS (Bostons pitching breaks down). Mets win, Wright is the MVP, Delgado is not the starter at 1B. Borowski is the Cleveland MVP.

7) Edwards Kings checks into rehab. Meets Sportsbettingman. The two plan '09 strategy, eat creamed spinach and drool alot.

8) Sportsbettingman leaves early. Says "Rehab is for quitters!"



[ June 02, 2008, 08:55 AM: Message edited by: Edwards Kings ]

expensive.