Stacking Up Against the Experts

ESPN.com had 19 of it's baseball "experts" do their predictions for the 2006 season and I wanted to see how Shark and I stacked up with what they thought. I'm going to list our pick for each division and the wild cards and after them what percentage of the ESPN guys agreed with us.

DIVISION WINNERS
AL East
Chachi: Yankees 68%
Shark: Red Sox 26%

AL Central
Chachi: White Sox 58%
Shark: White Sox 58%

AL West
Chachi: Angels 32%
Shark: A's 63%

NL East
Chachi: Phillies 0%
Shark: Phillies 0%

NL Central
Chachi: Cardinals 95%
Shark: Cardinals 95%

NL West
Chachi: Dodgers 53%
Shark: Giants 42%

WILD CARDS
AL
Chachi: A's 21%
Shark: Indians 16%

NL
Chachi: Mets 47%
Shark: Mets 47%

What we learn from this, well for starters Shark and I are either geniuses when it comes to the Phillies or way off base. The experts also love the A's, the Cardinals (except for one ass that picked the Astros), and really don't know what the hell is going to happen in the NL West. I think one of the bigger suprises was that just barely half of them picked the White Sox to win their division less than a year after winning the pennant. I guess we'll see who's right over the next few months and, from both Shark and myself, go Phillies and prove these guys wrong.