World Series Preview
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 19, 2011 2:39 PM PDT
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PrintEvery year I write this post, and every year you eat it up. Simple people. Simple people.
CONTEXT
The Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals will face each other in the 2011 World Series, which begins on Wednesday. The Rangers have advanced this far by defeating the Tampa Bay Rays and the Detroit Tigers. The Cardinals have advanced this far by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies and the Milwaukee Brewers. Both the Rangers and Cardinals managed to defeat their opponents by outplaying them in a short series.
KEY PLAYERS
Texas:
Roster
St. Louis:
Roster
Both the Rangers and Cardinals are filled to the brim with possible difference-makers. The 50 listed above will likely be the most important.
KEY QUESTIONS
Can the St. Louis Cardinals outscore the Texas Rangers?
They can.
Can the Texas Rangers outscore the St. Louis Cardinals?
They can.
Will one of the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers outscore the other four times?
Most certainly yes!
X FACTOR
The Cardinals will play a maximum of four games at home, while the Rangers will play a maximum of three games at home. The home crowds may or may not help. I imagine there are also intangibles somewhere.
CONCLUSION
Both the Cardinals and Rangers are good teams. The Rangers are probably better by a tiny bit. If you re-played the World Series a million times, maybe 55-60% of the time the Rangers would be crowned as champions. This World Series will be played once. One of these teams will win four games. The other probably won't. The outcome will mean everything, and nothing.
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I think some of these assumptions are wild, and quite frankly reckless.
Mr. Sullivan, I expect more from you than this trashy, muckraking journalism.
by SethGrandpa on Oct 19, 2011 2:44 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Clubhouse Chemistry
might be the deciding factor no?
I also see Carp is taking the mound for the Cards in game 1
Is there anything the man can’t do?
I like how this post more or less reflects my interest in this world series.
Well, one of these teams is gonna win. Which one? Whatever, I don’t really give a damn.
If John Madden wrote about baseball...
this is surely how it would read.
The next time the Mariners are in the World Series, I bet this preview will be different.
Napoli's 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th homers of the year (four more than Jeff Mathis' career total) rained down on Angel Stadium like knives from the ceiling.
Nice work
I have read pretty much every single preview of the World Series on the internet and I’ve got to tell you, honestly without any sarcasm, that this was the best preview. It was the most honest, most entertaining, and the writer didn’t try to over complicate what’s going on. Jeff, my friend, you have my stamp of approval. You can post previews like this anytime as far as I’m concerned :P
On my best day, I have never been able to discuss an issue in this much detail
and answer the key questions without providing a reader with any useful information at all.
Kudos!
Not encumbered by the thought process.
by Bart's Evil Twin on Oct 19, 2011 7:05 PM PDT reply actions
This looks like an upper-management PowerPoint slide deck...
…and then they would make expensive decisions based on this information.
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