The Giles brothers play naked robber

I’d like to say the lake of updates over the last few months – missing Bonds breaking Aaron’s record, the Matt Morris trade and other Giants related, um … news – was some sort of symbolic protest against the abortion that was the 2007 San Francisco Giants.

Unfortunately the real reason was a combination of a change in lifestyle (my fiancé moved in with me), the consequences of that change (planning a wedding) and the release of OOTP 2007. I’m not proud of that last one, put if there was any year I needed fake baseball, this was it.

Mercifully the regular season ended, at least for the Giants. Right now I’m watching the Rockies play the Padres in ONLY THE SEVENTH TIEBREAKER GAME IN HISTORY!!11!!!11!!! (thanks TBS announcers).

I am firmly in the Rockies camp. I have a hatred for the Padres that rivals that for the Dodgers. Even when they were bad they always seemed to play just well enough to steal one from the Giants when they needed it most. And the Giles brothers creep me out.

The Rockies are the middle child of the NL West. They don’t have the history of the Giants or Dodgers – Hell, even the Padres – and don’t have the success of the Diamond backs, the baby of the division people just love to heap praise on.

What has really brought me over to them is that this is the most wins this franchise has ever seen and it would be heart breaking for me to know that the most successful season in their history would go for not. I even picked the Padres at the beginning of the season as my NL representative in the World Series, but I would give that up to see the Rockies lose in three games to the Cubs.

My picks:

NL
Padres over Cubs
Phillies over Diamond backs

Padres over Phillies

AL
Red Sox over Indians
Yankees over Angels

Yankees over Red Sox

World Series
Yankees over Padres (Yawn and a tear)