National League April/May 2010

The National League has seen a no hitter, Ubaldo Jimenez, and a perfect game, Roy Halladay. That makes 3 no hitters so far this season. Kelly Johnson lead the league with 12 homeruns in April. What? Yes its true. Jimenez also owns every pitching lead, wins, ERA, K, you name it he has it. With a .85 ERA after 10 starts its the 3rd best start in the history of baseball. There are two division leaders, Atlanta and St. Louis who are used to being there and then you have San Diego. San Diego was rebuilding this season. They are winning games and competing for the division lead. At seasons end so far these are the team I think will make the playoffs. Atlanta, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Los Angeles.

American League April/May 2010

First two months of the season have been very entertaining. Teams with hot starts, Tampa Bay and New York, and teams start out really cold, Baltimore and Cleveland. We have a a perfect game, Dallas Braden on mothers day. We have also seen Yankee/Red Sox game go over 3 hours every time played. Threw two months the league leader in homeruns is Toronto's Jose Bautista with 16. A-Rod is moving up the all-time homerun list, and is now the active leader all time cause of the retirement of Ken Griffey Jr. Now as the the weather heats up the play of baseball will become better, and we get to see what team are for real and what teams are not. After two months I believe these will be the four playoff teams, Tampa Bay, New York, Minnesota, and Los Angeles.

Game 7

This is one of the most exciting things in sports! A win or go home game in a series. This game will be hard fought, very close, and ton and tons of hitting. Both teams will be eyeing a spot in the Eastern Finals. Montreal has played there ass off. They are the under dog and they are playing very well at this time. The Pens are playing well but not as good as they can do playing. In past game 7's, teams best player are not the guys that make the plays to win, its normally someone no one expected to do it. Lets go back to last year the Pens went to a game 7 vs Washington in the same round as this year, the hero? The whole Pens team. They came out with 6 goals. After Fleury made the stop on Ovechkin in the 1st it was clear sailing from there for the Pens. In the Stanley Cup finals the hero was Max Talbot. Who would of guessed that one? No one that's who. So who will be the hero this year? It can be anyone. If the Pens don't change the way they play there going to lose this game, but if they change they have a chance. Cant let up more then 3 goals, cause we cant score more then that right now. The Pens have won there last 4 game 7s. Hopefully they find a way to win this game and move onto the next round. LETS GO PENS!

2010 NFL Draft

On April 22nd 2010 it marked the first time that the NFL draft was on prime time TV, and it didn't disappoint. The St.Louis Rams had the first pick, and there was a lot of talk about them trading it, but they didn't and they went with Sam Bradford from Oklahoma. Now that he was gone the question was, when would the next quarterback go in the draft? That would be answered 24 picks later when the Denver Broncos traded up and took Florida QB Tim Tebow. In between those picks there were some big names taken. Suh went number two to the Loins, Haden went number seven to the Browns, Spiller went number nine to the Bills, Dez Bryant went twenty fourth to the Cowboys, as they took a big chance on him plus they traded up to get him. Of course I cant leave out the Steelers with the number eighteen they took center Maurkice Pouncey from Florida. Now with the first round done the question was when would Clausen, McCoy, Gerhart, and Tate go in the draft. In the second round the Panthers took Jimmy Clausen, the Vickings took Toby Gerhart and the Seahawks took Golden Tate. Now with Colt McCoy getting passed on he feel farther then anyone would of thought. Late into the third round the Browns finally took a chance and drafted Colt McCoy. It was a very exciting draft to see where some of these players were going to go. Big surprises and tons of trades. To finish out the Steelers draft they took three linebackers and traded Arizona a fifth round pick to get back corner Bryant McFadden, what a great add, so much help needed to this position.

NHL Playoffs Round 1

I know its now in the 2nd round, but here are things I thought was going to happen in the playoffs. I really didn't think that Washington, New Jersey and Buffalo were all going to lose in the first round. I was for sure Washington and New Jersey would win there series. Buffalo playing a tough Boston team seemed more likely for a good series. Washington/Montreal was a great series. Montreal won the series 4-3. For me that was great, it took Ovechkin out of the playoffs, I like to see him cry and be a bitch! New Jersey/Philadelphia was another good series. Philly won this one 4-1. Very surprised! So this meant that the number one and two seeds were out of the playoffs just like that. Buffalo/Boston series was yet another great series. Boston won 4-2. As good a Ryan Miller is he couldn't stop this high powered Boston team. Now the number one, two and three seeds in the east are out. Ottawa/Pittsburgh series was a good one. The Pens can out winners 4-2. So as the the 4 seed, the Pens were the lowest seeded team left in the East.
In the west I don't really follow so here are the final series results. The Sharks won there series over the Avalanche 4-2. The Blackhawks won there series over the Predators 4-2. The Canucks won there series over the Kings 4-2. The Redwings won there series over the Coyotes 4-3. The whole first round of the playoffs was very exciting! Every series was close and the games were incredible.
My prediction before the playoffs started, I had the Penguins playing the Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup finals. Lets see what happens, and hope the rest of the playoffs can be as exciting as the First round was. LETS GO PENS!

Gotta Catch up

Didn't write for a while so here are some topics that I will review soon. NFL draft, First month of baseball, NHL playoffs/Pens. Ill be posting these topics with in the next week or so.

2010 MLB Predictions

National League

East- Philadelphia
Central- St.Louis
West- Los Angeles D
Wildcard- Atlanta
M.V.P- Albert Pujols
Cy Young- Roy Halladay

American League

East- New York
Central- Minnesota
West- Los Angeles A
Wildcard- Boston
M.V.P- Joe Mauer
Cy Young- Justin Verlander

World Series

Philadelphia-2 vs. Minnesota-4

Pittsburgh Pirates- 79-83