The Yankees will win the World Series WITHOUT A DOUBT

**DodgerBlue81** · 10-01-2006, 10:19 PM

Can it get any easier for the Yankees?

No White Sox, Red Sox, or Angels. Those are the only teams when healthy that I think would have had a prayer against the Yankees.

The Tigers, what a joke! 19-31 in their last 50 games, choked away the division, got whipped by the Yankees in the regular season. Got swept by the Royals at home to end the season. Not a chance, Yankees in a sweep.

Then in the ALCS, A's or Twins. Neither lineup scares you. Yankees have owned those teams in the post-season recently.

Yeah there are different players on the A's, but I can't trust a Billy Beane team to beat the Yankees when they've yet to even win one post-season series.

The Twins don't have Liriano, so no chance to beat the Yankees. Santana can't start every game. I can't believe they've played so well without Liriano. After Santana, their rotation is very mediocre. Radke is coming off an injury and hasn't been anything special this season anyway. Boof Bonser, Matt Garza, Carlos Silva, and Scott Baker would not beat the Yankees.

As far as the National League, well the Mets, their toughest competition, have lost their ace. He had never pitched too well against the Yankees anyway, and I couldn't see the Mets beating the Yankees in a World Series.

The Padres, weak hitting team, no way. Maybe the Yankees wouldn't sweep them like in 1998, but I couldn't see the Padres winning more than one game in that series.

The Cardinals forget it. They're a joke. Yankees would murder their pitching. They're lucky as hell to have made the playoffs, if the season was a week longer they wouldn't have won their division.

And my Dodgers no way either. Our starting pitching would get pounded by the Yankees. I think only Lowe would pitch well against them.

Unfortunately, the Yankees will end their short drought this season and win the World Series. They and their fans will celebrate as if they actually accomplished something, but with a $200 million+ payroll, it wouldn't be much of an accomplishment. I hope I'm dead wrong, as I have been since 2001, (I've picked the Yankees to win the World Series every year since 1996) but I just can't see this Yankee team losing. This is the easiest road they've had.

**Astro** · 10-01-2006, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by DodgerBlue81

Can it get any easier for the Yankees?

No White Sox, Red Sox, or Angels. Those are the only teams when healthy that I think would have had a prayer against the Yankees.

The Tigers, what a joke! 19-31 in their last 50 games, choked away the division, got whipped by the Yankees in the regular season. Got swept by the Royals at home to end the season. Not a chance, Yankees in a sweep.

Then in the ALCS, A's or Twins. Neither lineup scares you. Yankees have owned those teams in the post-season recently.

Yeah there are different players on the A's, but I can't trust a Billy Beane team to beat the Yankees when they've yet to even win one post-season series.

The Twins don't have Liriano, so no chance to beat the Yankees. Santana can't start every game. I can't believe they've played so well without Liriano. After Santana, their rotation is very mediocre. Radke is coming off an injury and hasn't been anything special this season anyway. Boof Bonser, Matt Garza, Carlos Silva, and Scott Baker would not beat the Yankees.

As far as the National League, well the Mets, their toughest competition, have lost their ace. He had never pitched too well against the Yankees anyway, and I couldn't see the Mets beating the Yankees in a World Series.

The Padres, weak hitting team, no way. Maybe the Yankees wouldn't sweep them like in 1998, but I couldn't see the Padres winning more than one game in that series.

The Cardinals forget it. They're a joke. Yankees would murder their pitching. They're lucky as hell to have made the playoffs, if the season was a week longer they wouldn't have won their division.

And my Dodgers no way either. Our starting pitching would get pounded by the Yankees. I think only Lowe would pitch well against them.

Unfortunately, the Yankees will end their short drought this season and win the World Series. They and their fans will celebrate as if they actually accomplished something, but with a $200 million+ payroll, it wouldn't be much of an accomplishment. I hope I'm dead wrong, as I have been since 2001, (I've picked the Yankees to win the World Series every year since 1996) but I just can't see this Yankee team losing. This is the easiest road they've had.

I'm willing to make a friendly wager, you take the Yankees, I'll take the other 7 teams

**Edgartohof** · 10-01-2006, 10:43 PM

Glad to see another person just giving up on everybody.

Hey, anybody has a shot - yes, the Yankees too.

Yes, Detroit was slipping (badly) at the end, and I myself don't give them much of a chance. But the Twins DO have Santana, the reigning AL triple crown leader, and while he can't pitch every game, he can pitch a few. And the Twins also have Morneau, Cuddyer, and Hunter to provide some power in the lineup, along with the reigning AL batting title winner - Joe Mauer

Heck, there are 3 possible MVP candidates on this team alone - how many on the Yankee's - one. So they aren't out of it yet. Though I would say that the Yank's will probably play some T-ball of the other Twins starters, but if it's close, they have their own Sandman in Joe Nathan to close it out (36/38 saves - 1.58 ERA - 0.790 WHIP - all are better than Mo's #'s - 34/37 saves - 1.80 ERA - 0.960 WHIP).

**hudsonharden** · 10-01-2006, 11:01 PM

Why not go out on a limb and say that they sweep all 3 series?

**Myankee4life** · 10-01-2006, 11:02 PM

After the 2003 WS, I've learned not to take any team lightly.

**BigStellyPADRES4LIFE** · 10-01-2006, 11:08 PM

Anyone in sports who makes a claim like... this team willl.... etc. obviously has forgotten some of the things that have happened in history.

**soberdennis** · 10-01-2006, 11:52 PM

I like your optimism.

Now seriously, even an avid Yankee fan like me doesn't claim it is going to be that easy. I think we will win. But I recognize that anything can happen.

**rwolfe09** · 10-02-2006, 04:12 AM

I think it will be Twins/Yankees ALCS.
And if the Twins falter, it will be the 2nd rendition of the Subway Series..I believe this time the Mets will win (if the Twins don't go to the WS). But if the Twins stay in it then I'm all for Minnesota (and Pat Neshek).

**RuthMayBond** · 10-02-2006, 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by Myankee4life

After the 2003 WS, I've learned not to take any team lightly.

You mean with a 3 games to none lead in a 2004 postseason series?

**KCGHOST** · 10-02-2006, 07:25 AM

The Yanks should breeze to the WS title this year. Afterall they paid for it.

**Mattingly** · 10-02-2006, 08:02 AM

There's never any guarantees in sports. All it takes is an error, a stolen base, a wild pitch to score a run and the entire game can be turned right around in front of everybody. There's no formula for the WS. The winner of the Minnesota-Oakland are returning to their 2002 ALDS, which Minnesota won.

*IF* the Yanks are fortunate to defeat Detroit, which in of itself is not guaranteed, then the Twins lost to the Yanks in the 2003-04 ALDS, as did the A's in 2000-01. Link. Someone will want payback, and there's no guaranteeing which team will win.

As to the World Series, there's absolutely no guarantee on who will win this. If someone is absolutely certain, I do believe that there's a place in Vegas for you, but please make sure you at least have your bus fare, food and hotel paid for in advance.

I may be a Yankee homer, but at least reality does set in once in awhile.

**The Toy Cannon** · 10-02-2006, 08:29 AM

Haven't the last five years or so proven that it doesn't matter who the "best team" is? Any playoff team can win it if they get hot.

The White Sox on paper certainly didn't appear to be better than the Astros. Houston's two best hitters(Berkman and Ensberg) were better than anyone the White Sox had. Chicago's rotation got a lot of pub for their postseason performance, but you'd have a pretty difficult time proving that any three of their pitchers were better than Clemens-Oswalt-Pettitte. Plus, Chicago had a rookie closer, while Houston had pre-meltdown Brad Lidge.

2003 produced an even more improbable outcome. And 2002 had a bunch of singles hitters and an extremely mediocre rotation win it all, despite four World Series homeruns and a .700 on base percentage from Barry Bonds at the peak of his likely steroid-enhanced career.

You might as well pick a team out of a hat without looking; that's your best chance of predicting the winner.

**Blackout** · 10-02-2006, 08:34 AM

i feel the Yankees had the best teams in the regular season in 2001, 2003 and 2005 and things didn't work out for them then

i don't see how anyone can say ANY team will breeze through the playoffs

**Knick9** · 10-02-2006, 10:01 AM

Did Game 7 of the 2001 WS mean anything?

Did the 2002 ALDS mean anything?

Did the 2003 WS mean anything?

Did the 2004 ALCS (especially this) mean anything?

Did the 2005 ALDS mean anything?

My point is this, it's not always the best team on paper that wins it all. You know by now that the Yankees load up on high paid players, but when push comes to shove, something happens to derail all the doubts.

**KingNothing13** · 10-02-2006, 11:24 AM

without a doubt, eh?

well, lets forget about playing the games then. Award the trophy to Georgie now. Start making plans for the parade next week.

Just giving you a hard time. Altough this post season, like any others is wide open, I do belive the Yankees have to be considered the favorite, if nothing else, then by virtue of the best regular season record. But that is why they play the games!

Yankeebiscuitfan · 10-02-2006, 11:37 AM

Eventhough I give the Yankees a better chance vs. Detroit, you've got to remember it is baseball. Nothing is sure.

If the Yanks will advance to the ALCS, I am not too sure about their chances. They have owned the A's and Minnesota in the previous off seasons? Maybe, but not during the regular season. They had a hard time vs Oakland and the Twins.

I hope that you know what you are talking about; it would make this season a great one for me.

**SoxSon** · 10-02-2006, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by The Toy Cannon

Haven't the last five years or so proven that it doesn't matter who the "best team" is? Any playoff team can win it if they get hot.

This is the thing, right here.

Picking a postseason winner based on regular season prowess or, for that matter, overall statistical dominance, makes about as much sense as picking the Yankees to win the WS this year.

**Yankee Legend** · 10-02-2006, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by DodgerBlue81

They and their fans will celebrate as if they actually accomplished something, but with a $200 million+ payroll, it wouldn't be much of an accomplishment.

Why not?

$$$ dont produce championships
good pitching, good hitting and good defense does. Are you going to tell every Yankee player that his team doesnt deserve to win because of the high payroll?

**AznInvasion** · 10-02-2006, 01:10 PM

I think Dodgerblue just means its not much of a challenge but I have a different opinion. I don't think the yanks will even make it to the world series. Twins vs. Yanks in NLCS at least that's how i feel. Twins will then beat the living crap out of the yanks. After that I don't see anyone from NL stopping the twins.

**CROM** · 10-02-2006, 02:59 PM

i think the twins will give the yankees a run.. if they get by the As that is.. should be interesting..

**SoxSon** · 10-02-2006, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by AznInvasion

I think Dodgerblue just means its not much of a challenge but I have a different opinion. I don't think the yanks will even make it to the world series. Twins vs. Yanks in NLCS at least that's how i feel. Twins will then beat the living crap out of the yanks. After that I don't see anyone from NL stopping the twins.

I think you've mistyped one letter, AznInvasion.

**Charger567** · 10-02-2006, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Yankee Legend

Why not?

$$$ dont produce championships
good pitching, good hitting and good defense does. Are you going to tell every Yankee player that his team doesnt deserve to win because of the high payroll?

... Yes.. But $$$ produces good pitching, hitting, and defense... Nobody is saying they don't deserve to win. What they are saying is that winning a world series with 200m isn't that hard..

Winning possibly the best division in Baseball with a $65 payroll, now thats hard.