Give FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal credit—before reaching for the Chicago White Sox as his prediction to win the 2010 World Series, he prefaced it with (probably real) editor guidelines.
The first two essentially prohibited him from tabbing either the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox.
Fine, the powers-that-be wanted him to zig when everyone else zagged. Makes for more interesting headlines, spicier debate, blah, blah, blah.
That's all well and good except it's artificial, which doesn't sit well with me.
Rosenthal has to know what most baseball brains have recognized—the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and (to a lesser degree) the Tampa Bay Rays are built differently that anyone else in Major League Baseball with the possible exception of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Any ...
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2010 AL East: World Series Win Takes Some Pressure Off NY Yankees, Uh Oh
Posted: 3rd April 2010 by Andrew Brining in MLBComments Off on 2010 AL East: World Series Win Takes Some Pressure Off NY Yankees, Uh Oh