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The odds of winning the 2012World Series are shown below. Click the links below for coverage of some of your favorite MLB teams.
MLB Teams
Odds of Winning
2012 World Series*
* As of Dec 22, 2011.
Courtesy of bodog.ca
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2011
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The odds of winning the 2011 World Series are shown below (from March 2011). St-Louis won the World Series, beating the 20-1 odds.
Odds of Winning
2011 World Series*
Team |
Odds |
| Philadelphia Phillies |
3-1 |
| New York Yankees |
5-1 |
Boston Red Sox |
9-2 |
San Francisco Giants |
15-1 |
St-Louis Cardinals |
20-1 |
| Los Angeles Dodgers |
35-1 |
Chicago White Sox |
35-1 |
* As of Mar 1, 2011.
Courtesy of vegasinsider.com
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Toppling of the TheocracyDear Chicago Cubs Fans, You are in for a treat with Theo Epstein signing a five-year deal with your club. One of the most outstanding general managers in the sport will be haunting the halls of 1060 West Addison soon, and I daresay that the ghosts of past doomed seasons
Overhaul at Yawkey WaySince 2003 John W. Henry and his off-field team has remade Fenway Park. After the colossal collapse this September on-field management has been the next feature to be renovated. The latest shocker out of 4 Yawkey Way was the unjust canning of first base coach Ron Johnson. Johnson was with
Tears Over Eight YearsOf exultation in 2004 and 2007. Of frustration in 2006, 2008, and 2010. Of dolor in 2011. I’m watching Terry Francona’s press conference and I think that jettisoning him is a mistake. It’s an extreme overreaction to an admittedly colossal collapse. Bill Belichick wasn’t fired after Super Bowl XLII. Neither
It Is Designed to Break Your HeartThere’s nothing I could say here that hasn’t been stated in a manner infinitely more analytical, anguished, and eloquent elsewhere. Nate Silver neatly dissects the Red Sox’s epic collapse in September. He also concisely computes the dual, dueling improbabilities of the Yankees blowing a seven-run lead and the Red Sox
Lavarnway and Shirley1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8Schlemiel! Schlimazel!Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!We’re gonna do itGive us any chance we’ll take itGive us any rule we’ll break itWe’re gonna make our dreams come trueDoin’ it our way—“Making Our Dreams Come True,” Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox For once Robert Andino was the schlemiel,
Go and Catch a Falling StarGo and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot; Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. — Song by
Jacobean EraIt’s Jacoby Ellsbury’s world; we just live in it. A few hours after becoming the first Red Sox 30/30 man Ellsbury was one of the few offensive forces on either team in the 14-inning long game. Not only is the season a marathon but these last few games determining the
30/30Jacoby Ellsbury became the first Red Sox player to have 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a season, joining 36 others in an elite list that includes all-time greats like Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonds, Barry Larkin, and Willie Mays. The list also has surprises such as
Wake Me Up When September EndsAs annoying as the sound clip after the home team scores at Yankee Stadium is, it agitated me more that I didn’t know the origin of the song. I finally gloogled (Google + slog) enough permutations of the words yankee, score, run, and song without putting in the expletives I
Reynolds RappedWhen Mark Reynolds isn’t striking out he’s clearing the fences with circuit clouts. Reynolds drove in half of Baltimore’s runs last night but amazingly didn’t strike out once. Only Drew Stubbs’s 200 strikeouts outpaces Reynolds’s 183 whiffs. The Red Sox are 4-13 since September 5, the day that began their
Annoying AndinoThe bullpen band’s mojo helped to break the 4-4 tie in the fourth, but the usually sound duo of Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papelbon struck a sour note in the eighth. Bard allowed singles to Matt Wieters and Mark Reynolds but whiffed Adam Jones. Papelbon relieved Bard and struck out
Straight PimpingThe Magic Snuggie didn’t work. That narrows it down to Red Sox Pimp Dude and his crimson-wigged companion. “I thought it was real,” Don Orsillo said of the scarlet postiche. This from the man who thought a solar eclipse meant the sun positioned itself between the earth and the moon.
Fight or FlightThe Red Sox choose the wrong sort of flight, fleeing the field with their collective tail between their legs with a loss against the cellar-dwelling Orioles. To be fair the local nine put up a bit of a fight in the fifth with Adrian Gonzalez’s RBI double and Dustin Pedroia’s
Winning Came at a PriceMike Aviles has been one of the few players making any impact in the lineup of late. His home run in the second game of the series proved to be the game-winning run, and he kept his team in the game today (and in the series) with a three-run bomb
Niemann Marked UsI guess Norman Chad, Lon McEachern, and Ali Nejad wrapped up all the plumb poker commentator jobs so Fox audiences were stuck with Matt Vasgersian and Tim McCarver for this game. Vasgersian is the most generic sport commentator on the planet. When broadcast companies want to start manufacturing play by
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