Stand and be recognized...

Liquidhippo · Post by **Liquidhippo** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:57 pm

...if you saw any of these coming:

San Diego 15-27 - worst record in the NL

Colorado 15-25 - 2nd worst record in the NL

Detroit 16-25 - 2nd worst record in the AL(will be the worst after they lose the next 2 to Arizona)

If you called these, bravo I say, Bravo!

sportsbettingman · Post by **sportsbettingman** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:05 pm

I'll admit that I feel DET will still turn it around...but their pitching staff looks shaky.

San Diego was a team I thought got a bit better...but now see them as a middle of the road team.

Colorado was a team that Chesty, DOUGHBOYS, Bjoak, and myself mumbled about in Vegas.

Thoughts were varied...but there was mention that COL was the ultimate "catch lightening in a bottle" type team from 2007...and that their fan base and team played the final month like that of a playoff atmosphere.

Very hard to duplicate authentic emotions impact on performance.

I thought Holiday would have a hard time repeating his season...and Tulo may as well...if in fact the energy created late last season to feed off, was not there.

~Lance

KJ Duke · Post by **KJ Duke** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:42 pm

Originally posted by Liquidhippo:

...if you saw any of these coming:

San Diego 15-27 - worst record in the NL

Colorado 15-25 - 2nd worst record in the NL

Detroit 16-25 - 2nd worst record in the AL(will be the worst after they lose the next 2 to Arizona)

SD - below .500 yes, worst team in the lge no. Still should be able to win ~75 but they need a spark or two from the minors. COL - expected regression, not this bad. Still think they'll get ~80 wins if Tulo comes back strong, pitching should be better than so far. Detroit, nope. Bottom of Central is better than I thought, and don't think they'll win ~85 unless Cabrera gets hot real soon and the old guys stay healthy (unlikely).

[ May 16, 2008, 04:44 AM: Message edited by: KJ Duke ]

bjoak · Post by **bjoak** » Fri May 16, 2008 5:28 am

I certainly didn't think Detroit was a 1000 run team or anything like a lot of people, but I had no idea they'd do this poorly. They should turn it around to some extent. I guess hindsight is 20/20 but you could certainly envision scenarios in which every one of those pitchers would fall apart as they have. Verlander was the only one without huge question marks, but even he saw quite an innings increase.