Philadelphia Phillies, 2008 World Series Champs.
After 162 games (with a plus 1 last night), the MLB playoffs are finally here. Regular season records and accolades go out the window today when the Rockies, Phillies, Twins, Yankees, Cardinals, and Dodgers begin postseason play (the Red Sox and Angels kick off their series tomorrow night).
Other sport sites are gonna base their predictions on things like “injuries” and “statistics” and other so-called meaningful metrics. To which we at Complex say (like an ump to Bobby Cox): “F*#% outta here.” Instead, we’ve worked our predictions around the important things in baseball, the essentials like players’ wifeys and ‘roid usage. Read on for our in-depth forecast of this year’s playoff action (check back in a couple weeks for our League Championship Series and World Series breakdowns)…
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You know the Chicago Way, right? Not surprisingly, it seems Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen does. Over the weekend, Oz delivered a new edict to opposing pitchers: hit one of his guys, he’ll hit two of yours.
This is mostly a case of Ozzie being Ozzie, as most major league managers will back up their players by retaliating for hit batsmen. Still, it’s not often that a skipper will actually articulate his plans for revenge (much less double the ante), so not surprisingly, Guillen’s comments have gotten the attention of MLB’s disciplinarians. And of course Ozzie’s got our attention (we love to watch dude’s pound each other in the backside), so we looked back on Baseball’s 5 Greatest Retaliations…
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Can’t nothing keep Manny from the All-Star Game!
Turns out you can’t keep a good, fun-loving, dreadlocked, prima donna baseball player down for long (well, maybe if his estrogen is particularly low you could…). Currently serving a 50-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Manny Ramirez finds himself a few votes short of making the Major League’s All-Star Game in July. He returns from his ban July 3 and the game is July 14, and there aren’t any rules prohibiting him from playing should he get enough fan votes to make it as a starter.
Not surprisingly, this has the dignitaries in the sports blahblahblah-o-sphere very indignant. And of course that’s produced a similarly predictable host of nose thumbers who’ve started an Internet campaign to get Manny elected just for the eff of it (get your contrariness on here). But this isn’t the first time voting irregularities have clouded an All-Star game, as you’ll see with our History of All-Star Selection Shenanigans…
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As you may have heard Manny Ramirez, the All-Star home run hitter and fan of the good life, was traded to the Dodgers last week, ending one of the longest, he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not relationships baseball has ever seen.
Although Boston management may have been happy to see Manny go, there's no doubt that Sox fans are going to miss their resident quote-monster/hilarious-but-not-on-purpose power hitter. Manny’s gotta be psyched about his recent relocation, given all the fun shit he’ll have at his fingertips while playing in the City Of Angels…
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