The 2004 Red Sox Weren't Even Close

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Adam i totally disagree about your assessment of divisions toughness. AL East was not the toughest just because of the Yankees and Red Sox,they dont offset the fact that the Orioles had 0 pitching,and Blue Jays and Devil Rays were just bad teams. The weakest division was the al central[which you said] but was followed by the NL East. The NL central had 3 of the top 5 teams in baseball according to most power rankings and if the Cubs didnt make the playoffs with all that offense and pitching then it says something for the division.In fact the 2 divisions rank out very similar except for the fact central had 3 very good teams and 3 bad teams and al east had 2 very good teams and 3 bad teams.

The Giants were a 2 man team with 1 player being a pitcher who went every 5 days and they stayed in the race to the final day.Diamondbacks and Rockies were horrendous teams.Their division was not up to par with nl central and only the AL west with 3 very good teams and 1 team that shouldve been good but grew old fast and was dismantled so they can regroup for this upcoming season, would be on par with the central.

1. nl central
2t al east
2t al west
4 nl weat
5 nl east
6 al central

Its either a miraculous comeback or the worst choke ever and id rather go with the latter.Some say the best reliever ever,with the highest price team ever,in the biggest rivalry ever,and losing the last 2 games at a place like yankee stadium and after being up 3-0 with a lead in the 9th and its never been done before.With that many odds stacked in one teams favor i dont know how anyone can downplay it.I think this years diamondbacks couldve stepped in a closed that one out for the yankees and then had a better showing in the world series than the cardinals did vs the red sox