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I don't know if ultimately I'll predict a Wild Card spot for the Cubs, but they certainly have reason to go into the season expecting a season consisting of meaningful September games.

I'm amped up for this season...everything seems wide open, and there's only about 5 teams that really don't have hope this year. Setting up for a very unpredictable year. That being said, I think in the end it will be Seattle and St. Louis in the World Series.

Awesome to see baseball back, and I looked at the MLB schedule with exception to tomorrow every weekday during the next two weeks has a daygame or two in it. That should make my work day more enjoyable. Can't wait to see the Yanks in action tomorrow. So many new faces...team looks entirely different, I'm fascinated to see what happens. As far as predictions go here are mine... AL Division Winners: TB, Detroit, Texas Wild Card - KC over NYY NL Division Winners: Washington, St. Louis, Arizona Wild Card - LAD over Milwaukee World Series - Tampa Bay over Washington

As a Yankee fan, I feel they desperately need this guy to go from a team that I don't think will make the playoffs into an instant World Series contender.

So sad...in my mind Tony Soprano is the greatest character in TV history. RIP. This one's hard to swallow.

"It's a heart-warming story, just not believable. That's why I give E.T. one and a half stars." - Perd Hapley

1. Avengers 2. Django 3. Argo 4. 21 Jump Street 5. Dark Knight Rises 6. Ted 7. Wreck It Ralph 8. Pitch Perfect 9. The Dictator 10. The Campaign

I absolutely can't stand Kevin from The Office. The first season or two when he was the quiet, creepy, poker-loving guy he was sort of funny. Since then he has become so cartoonish and unfunny.

There were times where I enjoyed the storylines or dialogue from the three other main characters, but I just found E to be whiny and annoying the entire time.

There have always been characters in some of my favorite TV shows that I just don't enjoy at all. E - Entourage Carla - Scrubs Lilly - How I Met Your Mother Donna - That 70's Show Bill & Tara - True Blood

I know everybody here loves Community, and I'm a pretty big fan myself, but I gotta admit Parks has been untouchable over the past year. Granted Community is only 3 episodes in this year, but even including Season 3, I still think over the past year or two Parks has been the better show. It's so consistently excellent (hilarious moments/touching storylines). It's been on par with seasons 2/3 of the Office. Does anybody agree? Also...Gerry pissing himself after hearing that there was going to be a Lil Sebastian impersonator!

What's supposed to be about baseball history has become a group of old men deciding what is morally acceptable for baseball fans. We can decide for ourselves how to rank Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens & Mike Pizza. These writers are obsessed with the power they have in their hands.

1. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 2. Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park 3. Man on the Moon - Kid Cudi 4. Future Sex Love Sounds - Justin Timberlake 5. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West 6. Get Rich or Die Tryin - 50 Cent 7. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance 8. 2001 - Dr. Dre 9. Eminem Show - Eminem 10. Meteora - Linkin Park 11. The Black Album - Jay-Z 12. Blueprint 3 - Jay-Z 13. Recovery - Eminem 14. Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World 15. Some Nights - F.U.N. 16. The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against the Machine 17. All American Rejects - All American Rejects 18. Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind 19. Watch the Throne - Kanye West & Jay-Z 20. Yourself or Someone Like You - Matchbox 20

1. Game of Thrones 2. Parks and Recreation 3. Dexter 4. Breaking Bad 5. American Horror Story 6. The New Girl 7. Workaholics 8. Community 9. The Office 10. The League

Before the season started my friend, a Met fan, told me he thought Dickey was going to win the CY Young...I told him he was absolutely crazy. I thought at best Dickey would be a serviceable 3-4 starter. It was surprising to see how excellent he was this year, though, considering how low my expectations are. I had to give big props to my friend. I don't understand why the Mets feel the need to shop Dickey...I think they aren't that far from contending. Their rotation is fine...add a guy like Saunders just to eat more innings...and then you get a serviceable bat or two like BJ Upton and a 2B with pop, and that team is not that bad. A lineup with Davis-Wright-Upton-Duda at it's core doesn't seem that much worse than the Giants WS offense from two years ago. Then you throw guys like Dickey-Santana-Niese-Harvey-and maybe a cheap veteran, and that should be good enough to contend as well. I don't understand the feeling that the Mets still aren't close to being a playoff-caliber team.

Definitely a cliche pick but Freaks and Geeks was a lot of fun. I wonder how different everyone's career would have been had the show actually run a few seasons.

I'll be rooting hard for the Tigers. Best hitter and pitcher in the world right no...I hope they get a ring.

What about his abysmal (at best) post season record outside of 2009 with the Yankees (and the fact that he was good in the post season with Seattle) ? What about the fact that he's had a worse average in his tenure in NY than his time in Seattle and Texas combined (.292 vs .307) ? What about the fact that his slugging % is significantly less as a Yankee ? What about the fact that his OPS is significantly lower as a Yankee ? That 2009 season ... Teixeira actually had a better year, everyone contributed in the ALDS (Swisher, Jeter, Matsui with ARod in game 1 - Teixeira with the GWHR in game 2 - Posada, ARod and the pitching staff in game 3), Sabathia won the ALCS for them, and Matsui was the best player in the WS. Throughout the post season guys like Melky, Swisher, and Cano had several key at bats. A-Rod hit 2 game-tying HRs in the 9th inning, he tied a postseason RBI record and put the team on his back unlike any overpaid player the Yankee has thrown out there over the past twelve years. Saying Sabathia won the ALCS for them is taking credit away from the guy who completely lit up the Angels pitching. My point wasn't that A-Rod lived up to the ridiculously high expectations (basically to be the best baseball player ever), but to say his run was anything but great is flat out foolish.

I really hope A-Rod winds up heading to Miami next year...it's a win for both parties. In Miami he won't be treated like shit, and he can play in front of his hometown fans with a lot less pressure. I've always been a big A-Rod fan, always arguing for this guy against Yankee fans who have had it out for him since he's arrived. I hear Yankee fans telling me that he's been awful since arriving...(8x All Star, 2x MVP, and 1x WS Champion - a World Series that he actually put the team on his back to win). He's certainly a douchebag, and suffers from similar vitriol from fans as Lebron James does, but on the field he was great. People had "best player ever" expectations, and instead got Hall of Fame caliber player...and complain about it. In the past 12 years the Yankees have won 1 World Series. Over those years they have overpaid plenty upon plenty of guys. Only one overpaid guy has ever put this team on his back, became a complete gamechanger in the playoffs, and led this team to a title. So, definitely, A-Rod should have had bigger postseasons more often, but at the same time to direct all blame towards him is unfair because when you step back and think about it he's the only guy who has bailed the Yankees out when it mattered most.

A-Rod not even in the lineup tonight. It's a sad day for A-Rod fans (me probably being the only one).