By the way, Body88. Wizards owned your Celtics again for the third time this year out of four games. Only team in the NBA to have beaten the Celts three times.
Better hope they don't play the Wizards in the playoffs. Bad matchup.
And what's up with the O's in first place?? (I know it's early.)
The Celtics have been playing the big three for 20 min or less, and experimenting openly during recent games. I think they will be all fired up, rested, and ready to go when they playoffs come (IMO).
I have thought since day one the sox would take about a month to rebound from all the hooplla, and the trip to China. I hope the O's battle it out with the sox all year!
Imo the team built to win in the regular season is the Angels, but they are not built for the playoffs. A bunch of solid starting pitching, and a great bull pen. They try to shorten up games, but I think that approach is bad news in the post season. I think the sox are built for the playoffs, and they will come on at the end of the season and play there best in October.
The yanks are lacking a true stud pitcher for the post season, and there young guys are going to need time to develope. I know Wong is good, but he is not that shut down beast ( like a Becket) for the post season. The yanks are old at a lot of positions, and health could be an issue with guys like Posada, Damon and Rivera. I think they will do well in the regular season (providing Wong can be a true number one), but they wont have enough to win in the postseason. I think the deal breaker between the Sox and the Yanks is Becket, Paplebon, Oki and Dice K. Our young guys are just as good, and they have some big postseason expeirence also. The yanks will have a great offense obviously, but I dont think they are built for the postseason.
I told b fury the sox's pitching was going to win them a world series at the start of last year, and he laughed.