The Bizniz, Volume 2, Issue 4 ARCHIVE

4/5/06

I love baseball. So with Major League Baseball in full swing (mad puns!!!) I am feeling great. Here's my full MLB 2007 Preview.

American League (with predicted order of finish)

East: Boston, New York, Toronto, Baltimore, Tampa Bay

Central: Detroit, Chicago, Minnesota, Cleveland, Kansas City

West: Anaheim, Oakland, Seattle, Texas

Division Winners: Boston (100-62), Detroit (89-73), Anaheim (93-69)

Wild Card: New York (98-64)

Major Award Winners: MVP-Alex Rodriguez, other candidates-David Ortiz, Gary Sheffield, Vlad Guererro. Cy Young-Justin Verlander, other candidates Johan Santana, Josh Beckett, Mariano Rivera

National League

East: New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Florida, Washington

Central: St. Louis, Chicago, Houston, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh

West: Los Angeles, San Diego, Arizona, San Francisco, Colorado

Division Winners: New York (95-67), St. Louis (90-72),

Los Angeles (94-68) Wild Card: Atlanta (89-73)

Major Award Winners: MVP-Albert Pujols, other candidates David Wright, Ryan Howard, Andruw Jones. Cy Young-Brandon Webb, other candidates Carlos Zambrano, John Smoltz, Jason Schmidt

Playoff Predictions:

ALDS-Boston over Detroit, New York over Anaheim ALCS-Boston over New York

NLDS-St. Louis over New York, Los Angeles over Atlanta NLCS-L.A. over St. Louis

World Series

Red Sox over Dodgers

On a separate note, I want to comment on the University of Kentucky men's basketball program. Billy Donovan, fresh off back-to-back national championships with Florida, ended the speculation today as to whether or not he'd leave the Gators to coach at Kentucky. Most pundits are saying that Kentucky is the holy grail of college coaching jobs, if not coaching jobs in general. They say Florida is a football school, that Florida is a football state. Kentucky has so much tradition! Let me say here in no uncertain terms my opinion: FLORIDA IS A BETTER BASKETBALL COACHING JOB THAN KENTUCKY. Kentucky is a solid program. But if you don't win 30 games and make the Final Four every year you're on the hot seat; ask Tubby Smith. Florida has all the resources, facilities, and attractiveness of any college program. In fact, as a college kid, where would you rather spend your college years: Lexington, KY or Gainesville, FL? Kentucky is no longer the best job out there. For Billy Donovan's sake, I'm glad he decided not to transfer laterally, if not down, by going to UK.