Random '09 Predictions

“o00o0o0o0o0 I’ll make all the predictions I want and the only thing it will cost me is my glowing reputation”

Who cares…….Jeff……really?

* At least two L.A. Times sportswriters will talk about how the Angels have somehow failed to “capture the imagination of L.A.”

This is a flat out given. It’s not even a prediction. You get minus points for this one.

… Except one is high when one makes a Predicition.

Where do I start? First, cut Speier “during the year”? Count me in to cut Speier now! If for nothing else, his embarassing Mike Tyson “impersonation.”

Second, if the A’s make it to 2nd place, let alone first, dogs and cats will mate.

Royals will be the miracle team, in that they will need divine help to win 65 games.

Howie Kendrick is a nice young man, but you just posted Roberto Clemente’s stats next to his name for same reason.

My prediction: closer by committee looks possible. Texas will finish 2nd. We will again lead the league in fewest walks.

It is opening day for the Braves and the Phillies. Interesting game so far.

But I think maybe it was meant to be. No professional would type that many words under that headline without giving one reason WHY the headline is true . He was looking for a reaction and he’s gotten it for 4 pages and counting.

This sums up every reason why you should never take anything Jeff Miller says about the Angels seriously (from the comments section):
 

jeff miller wrote: Hey, ipolitico, don’t blow my cover for me. Come on, I hate the Angels for trading my beloved K-Rod and they really, really are going to stink this year.

What a dolt.

Ashley Thompson will be the subject of a 60Minutes, Katie Couric interview.

Ah, excuse me, Lowell Sun, but we in the “La-La land media” are fully capable of running our own sports figures out of town, thank you very much. If I want to call for Scioscia’s job, I’ll stop spooning him long enough to do so.

Besides, I’m now on the record predicting doom for this team. I have boldly stepped up my game at the possible expense of my name.

And I ask for only one thing in return: a shiny, new 2009 World Series ring.

I believe he is trying a reverse psychology column, something not necessarily unknown around the halosphere. But I don’t read the guy the guy that often.

Jeff Miller will write a lot more horseshit, like his column of today, which is a neat encapsulation of Everything That Went Wrong With Newspaper Sportswriting.

I like Mark Whicker just fine, but Jeff Miller lost my interest a long time ago. I read this column just to see what Matt was going on about, and was amazed any editor decided to inflict that nonsense upon a public one would expect the Register was seeking to court. There is no POV to the article, just a lot of nay-saying and some prose posing which is apparently supposed to be cute.

What is the over and the under for Freedom shutting the whole operation down? I ask only because writing like Miller’s tells me the staff is losing the will to live.

is a Jackass who thinks he is God, what a prick.

and maybe reverse psychology babble was the point, but…it was so poorly written I had to read parts of it two and three times because I figured there had to be something I missed because it was pointless. Just really really bad writing.

I don’t provide much statistical analysis in my predictions, either, but even I can offer some kind of rationale for my opinions besides “look at all the other predictions that are the opposite of mine.”

a. a douche who’s only action is his left hand
s. a dodgers fan hiding his true identity
$. someone who thinks he is the best, but instead hacked ocregister and puts up crapp articles
b. an as$ who gets $8.5 hour working at burger king

Naps gets the AB to do it, and hits 34 HR this year.

1. Kelvim Escobar will pitch >170 innings this year, but Santana will pitch less than 50
2. Texas will finish ahead of the A’s, neither will win 80 games
3. Morales and Kendrick will hit 85 doubles between them
4. Fuentes will contend for the league lead in blown saves before the All Star break, we will pine for K-Rod
5. Erick Aybar will win a gold glove at SS, Bobby Abreu will be ‘retired’ from the outfield by the end of May

1. Roy Halladay will be pitching in Anaheim…in a white uniform this time.
2. Howie Kendrick gets over 500 AB, challenges for batting title.
3. Jered Weaver posts a sub 4.00 ERA and wins 17+
4. Ervin Santana will have at least 2 stints on the DL, make less than 12 starts.
5. Angels will finish with a 93-69 record, 9 games ahead of Oakland.

the MLB Network guys picked the Halo’s to win the West across the board. All nine of them. this is just another reason I waych it instead of ESPN now.

Angels go as far as the injury patrol stays away

and silence all those who bashed him last Oct.

Surely you’ll find someone else to rag on…

If it was just his goal to fire up the team, then that is his job as a columnist for the local paper. He probably doesn’t want to look like a “homer.” If he is bitter about them adding Los Angeles to their name (which goes back to their original history) then ripping the team for that is just wrong. We’ll have to see if he is any more positive during the season.