My World Series pick: Tigers!
I have to brag about something. In our baseball season preview section March 31, six of our writers made predictions about division winners, wild-card teams, pennant winners and World Series winners. My predictions turned out to be absolutely perfect. I went a perfect 0 for 8 in picking division winners and wild cards. That's hard to do, though I'd like to think I made it look easy.
Steve Dilbeck did the best, picking the Cubs to win their division (and the pennant and World Series) and the Red Sox to be the wild card. Jill Painter is the only other writer with a World Series pick alive, since she had the Red Sox going all the way.
I had the Mariners, Yankees, Tigers, Rockies, Braves and Brewers winning divisions, and the Indians and Mets as the wild cards. So at least I named a playoff team, the Brewers, though I didn't have them as the wild card.
Should any of our predictors really brag? Probably not.
Suspecting that someone could have made better predictions by picking randomly, I went to a Web site called randomizer.org today and let it select eight teams purely by chance. The computer gave me three teams that actually are in the playoffs: The Dodgers, Cubs and Phillies.
Next March, I'm picking teams out of a hat.
About this blog
Kevin Modesti watches sports from a new angle since his promotion from sports columnist to sports editor for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. In his new blog, Modesti not only comments on the big sports stories of the moment-- he talks about what makes them big. Think of it as a conversation with readers about how these stories should be covered.
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