A.L. Post Season Dances-Who Ya Got?

The American League title chase starts Wednesday night in Fenway Park when the Western Division champs Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim play the Eastern Division champs Boston Red Sox.

Thursday night Central champs Cleveland Indians host the Wild Card winners NY Yankees.

Its best of 5.

I've been on a roll prediction wise and the AL is easy.

ANGELS VS RED SOX:

Red Sox In 3 Games

First off I hate-detest the whole Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim team name. Its too fucking long. It should be LA Angels because lets face it folks there are no angels in LA. None.

Zip. Thats why I like it.

The baseball Angels start the series Wed. with their ace John Lackey up against Sox ace Josh

Beckett. The Red Sox have beaten John Shel-lackey twice already and they'll do it again here in Fenway. The Sox are expected to pitch Curt Schilling in game 2 and he just seems to pick it up a noth in postseason and in a contract year he'll be on even more.

In game 3 on Sun. Dicey K Matsuzaka takes the hill in Lala Land.

Hard to believe the Angels have never faced Dice. Because of this factor he'll win.

A game 4 if possible on Monday will feature Beckett on normal rest.

YANKEES @ INDIANS

YANKEES in 4

The teams here will go with a 4 man rotation as they'll play Thurs-Fri in Cleveland .

Yanks never faced 1st game starter C.C. Sabathia.

The Yanks are just too powerful offensively to lose and of course we're destined to see another Red Sox showdown for the AL Flag like in 2004.

AL POST SEASON AWARDS......

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MVP......ALEX RODRIGUEZ-NY YANKEES:

hands down lock. ARod had a phenomenal season becoming a 1 man wrecking crew offensively.

Without ARod the Yankees would've kept company with the DevilRays in the cellar.

ROOKIE of THE YEAR: DUSTIN PEDROIA- RED SOX

delmon young of TBay will get considered but Pedroia finished in the top 10 in AL batting.

not bad for a rookie eh? playing and being vital to a championship of the Red Sox doesn't hurt either.

CY YOUNG: JOSH BECKETT- RED SOX

it'll be close real close. The Sox did have the best record in baseball due to Beckett stopping

losing streaks.

MANAGER OF THE YEAR: JOE TORRE- YANKEES

Torre turned the Yanks from chumps to champs in the 2nd half of '07 . Eric Wedge of Cleveland will be close.

AL GOLD GLOVES

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1B KEVIN YOUKILIS-RED SOX

no errors at 1b and best fielding percentage at 1B

2B-PLACIDO POANCO-DETROIT

one of the few standouts defensively for the Tigers...

SS-ORLANDO CABRERRA- LAA ANGELS

why the Red Sox ever let this guy go will be written about even more when the gold is won.

3B-AKINORI IWAMURA-TAMPA BAY

not bad for a rookie Japanese 3B playing MLB for the first year. Well earned.

LF-SHANNON STEWART-OAKLAND

edges out Carl Crawford of the DRays ...

CF- COCO CRISP- RED SOX

this will be an upset over the guy who usually wins it Ichiro of Seattle. Crisp was Superman in CF for Boston...The Gold Glove will add to his trade value when the Sox ship him in offseason.

RF-NICK MARKAKIS-BALTIMORE

why not? Markakis was brilliant with the glove in RF check his stats.

P-JOE BLANTON-OAKLAND

was the best fielding percentage P in the AL

C-KENJI JOHJIMA-SEATTLE

He was the toughest catcher to run on the AL