Waiting For The Game

Daily Notes:

Surfing stories and wasting time, I came across these tid-bits...

• The ESPN folks pick their winners for the post-season here.  Notably, Peter Gammons, Jim Caple, and Pedro Gomez pick the Angels to beat the Dodgers in the World Series.  Three others pick the Angels to beat the Cubs.
• ESPN also has a spot where you can rank the playoff teams.  As of 2pm (central time), the Angels were leading the results with 4500 of the 12,000 votes.
• And one more ESPN story...Jemele Hill's article is about how the Angels are the best team no one is talking about.  I cracked up when she quoted Torii Hunter about when the Rally Monkey jumped on him Monday at the Playoff Rally, "I thought it was going to piss on me".  Also within this article, while the Angels were meeting with the media an ESPN analyst proclaimed they had no shot at dethroning the defending champion Red Sox.  "Yeah, you all picked the Mariners, too!" someone yelled out.
• Joe Sheehan of BaseballProspectus.com, by way of Sport Illustrated has this Angels/Red Sox preview.  He's taking the Sox.
• Here's some video of the Angels press conference before today's game courtesy of MLB.com.
• CBS Sportsline gives the edge to the Angels in their playoff preview.  All four of their baseball analysts pick the Angels over the Sox and are split on them winning the World Series over the Cubs.
• Over at Fox Sports, Ken Rosenthal picks the Angels in 5 games.

Hopefully this stuff will keep you occupied while waiting for the game to start.