National League Central
Not exactly loaded from top to bottom with great teams.
Winner: The Reds. First. Definitely.
The rest in no particular order.
Cardinals: Have great young pitching talent coming up, but they’re going to need some seasoning before the team wins with them.
Brewers: Who? Oh, yeah, Ryan Braun’s team. I really don’t want to believe that he was juicing (though the MLB does and is offering players immunity to testify against him, which seems kind of counterproductive), but I don’t think his reputation can take even one more vague allegation.
Pirates: Sigh, it’s starting to look like every other team in their division is going to have to have a losing record for them to have a winning one. Let’s all bow our heads in a moment of silence for the best years of Andrew McCutchen’s career wasted. It’s such a historically great franchise with such an awesome ballpark. Curse of the Barry Bondo?
Cubs: Ow, sharp pain in my chest. Call an ambulance. While I’m waiting, let’s deal with the pain. Rizzo, Barney, Castro, and Samardzija will form the nucleus of the next great losing era of Cubs baseball. (That Javier Baez kid looked awfully good in Spring Training too.) Theo Epstein will one day be found having hung himself off a Wrigleyville Rooftop. But this may not happen. The Cubs are being actively courted to move the franchise to a more business friendly, slightly lees corrupt, lower tax suburb of Chicago. They’re offering to give them the land to build the new stadium. Ah! Pain increasing. Unbearable. Blacking out. Fantasizing about a Cubs’ World Series win. Highest rated sporting event ever. Bill Murray in the stands, crying. Ah. . .
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