The long, 162-game, six-month journey begins in about nine hours.

Can the Phillies repeat? One game in the beginning if April isn't going to make or break this team, but Opening Day/Night is always an exciting time for baseball fans and teams either way.

With the beginning of the season comes preview stories and predictions. Today, you can get a look at the preseason power rankings (which I may make a weekly feature on the blog) and a story on the guy who isn't starting on the mound tonight, and how history has made him cautious... which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I also had these predictions, which appeared in the paper (I believe), but no on-line.


AL East: Red Sox
AL Central: White Sox
AL West: Angels
AL Wild Card: Tampa Bay

NL East: Philadelphia
NL Central: Cubs
NL West: Dodgers
NL Wild Card: St. Louis


AL MVP: Mark Teixeira, NYY
NL MVP: Manny Ramirez, LAD

AL Cy Young: Roy Halladay, TOR
NL Cy Young: Cole Hamels, PHL

AL Rookie of the Year: David Price, RAYS
NL Rookie of the Year: Cameron Maybin, FLA




AL Divisional Series: Red Sox over White Sox; Tampa over Angels
NL Divisional Series: Philadelphia over St. Louis; Cubs over Dodgers

AL Championship Series: Red Sox over Tampa
NL Championship Series: Philadelphia over Cubs

World Series: Red Sox over Philadelphia