Spring training is under way! In less than a month, the baseball season will begin, and all of the predictions made by the "experts" will come true, right? In actuality, the predictions are meaningless. They just pick whoever made the flashiest deal or pick up and bandwagon on them, to try and make people think they will win. Because more people will go to games if their team is "destined" to go to the World Series, the "experts" often just pick the team that needs a financial boost, or to encourage teams to spend more money. This would be fine, making more teams spend money, but most of the time they're wrong, which can hurt the financials of the teams that aren't predicted to win. In fact, "destined" teams have only won once in the past decade, in 2009. Other than that, most have just been a sort of advertisement to teams. "Hey, spend more money and we'll tell your fans you're destined to win. Never mind your team probably won't make the playoffs because you just spent the most amount of money possible! You'll "make" that money right back off a more deserving team. Another example: Hey did anyone enjoy that Dodgers-Mariners World Series? No? What about the secondary choice, the Nationals-Indians Fall Classic? What! Only one of those teams made the playoffs? What! What about the thrilling seven-game NLCS between the Padres and Dodgers? What! The Padres were barely over 500? Ridiculous! The Royals won? I knew it. The Cubs signed two people! They automatically win! No one else should even bother playing!
If you don't understand what the problem is by now, you should read my other blogs. And all my classmates!
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