The Pequot Lakers…Hotter ‘n a Pistol.

Beginning with the American League East. Rabbit Ray Millers prognostication begins with the Lakers.

Pequot Lakers
Colt Stadium, home of the 2008 Pequot Lakers, had perhaps the oddest groundbreaking ceremony in January 3, 1962. Most people use shovels, these fellows in Texas used Colt .45’s (not the players or the beer, the guns).

What could work: If any of the Lakers get on base, you might as well concede second to them. These kids will be stealing bases as soon as they get off the team bus. Cobb, Collins, Duffy, and Campaneris have a chance of swiping at least 50 bases each. Mickey Rivers (pictured above) and Bid McPhee will easily swipe 30 each. Of course, with the world’s largest mosquitoes hovering around the park the boys need to keep moving. The pitching staff should be aided by a steady wind in from right, and a thirty foot screen in center field, 420 feet away.

What could fail: Pitching. The top two are Cy Young and Hal Newhauser. Young doesn’t’ fair so well when he doesn’t have the chance to pitch fifty complete games a season, and Hal bounced around a lot last year until he found a home with the Lakers. The rest of the staff needs career years and a little help from the park.

Result: 78-82. Two games will be called off…one due to mosquitoes carrying off Mickey Rivers and another due to the failed Colt-45 give-a-way day).