Pitchers and Catchers Finally Report

Tomorrow marks the day pitchers and catchers reports to HoHoKam Park in AZ to kick off the 100th season since the Cubs have won a World Series. I couldn't be more excited. This has motivated me to make some preliminary picks for the upcoming season. And look back to last year and see how I did with those picks. First I will make the picks for the Divisional Winners for the 2008 season. Now these are just preliminary and are subject to change after I look at the teams closer.
American League
East: Boston Red Sox
Central: Detroit Tigers
West: Los Angeles Angels
National League
East: New York Mets
Central: Chicago Cubs
West: Colorado Rockies

Now lets take a look back to see how I did last season picking the Divisional Winners. Here is a direct quote from last March 7th. These picks were made later in the spring training season and may have been influenced by some four letter word or a sports network. Not this year. Making my first picks before they start to make me believe things I don't really believe.

American League:
East: Toronto Blue Jays. No explanation needed. (I have no idea why I didn't think there was an explanation needed to not pick the Sox or the Yanks)
Central: (Toughest Division in Baseball) Cleveland Indians
West: Angels (wherever the hell they are from)

National League:
East: New York Mets (Seriously, they should have won it.  Choke worse would you!)
Central: St. Louis Cardinals (or the Cubs, but I figure I pick the Cubs every year and I will change in hopes of actually winning this season.)     (IT WORKED!)
West: San Francisco Giants  (This pick is seriously embarrassing.  One of the worst teams in baseball)

In case you didn't notice, Red means wrong, Green mean correct, and blue is the stuff that I just added this year.  So I didn't do that great last year, but there were some picks that I remember picking to try and make myself seen smart if it was right... I look really dumb when they are terrible though, and I picked them to win their division.  Wild Card and some award winning picks might be up later on in the spring, but I make no guarantees.