The Marilynd Monroes
What gives when a major league player no longer can make the most basic of plays? Steve Sax, Rick Ankiel and Chuck Knoblauch. Knobby developed the yips in 1999 and never recovered. His throws would be 20 feet over the first baseman’s head. Fans along the first baseline wore hardhats. One errant throw even hit announcer Keith Olbermann’s mother in the head.
What could work: Hitting. The team actually got stronger over last season. While they lost Ozzie Smith and Gabby Hartnett they replaced them with Sal Bando, Chuck Knoblauch, and Carlton Fisk. Not a bad swap by any means. Add these gentlemen to the keepers of Slidin’ Billy Hamilton, Jolting Joe, The Babe, and Mike Schmidt and you have yourself the best offensive team in the league.
What could fail: We said it last year, we’ll say it again. Pitching is an afterthought for this squad. It really didn’t seem to matter last year because the offense scored so many runs. The pitchers actually looked respectable given the leads they had to work with. We’ll see what happens this year with many of the same starters (Ruth, Overall, Rijo, Pink and many more) returning. A new fun name was added to the squad. We’re excited to see how Silver King performs.
Result: 85-77. This division might boil down to the fields. Two neutral sites (the Metrodome and Metropolitan Stadium), a pitchers park (Jacobs Field) and a hitters park (Coors). So in the end, it will be the home parks that decide the winner in this, the toughest division. The Monroes hitters will rule.
3 comments:
Wrong, The Toughest division is always the division with SmallBall. You'll see.
Just like last year???
Yes, just like last year. Everyone in our division was over
.500. I said division not team. Small Ball just wasn't good enough last year; they were beaten by better teams.
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