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Baseball 2006 - The Teams That Win Their World Series Tickets

Weather Major League Baseball for the 2006 season.
Eighty-six years, the infamous "Black Sox" scandal, the Chicago White Sox are once again champions of baseball, when the game is once again on the brink of disaster. Balco hearings in 2005 highlighted the rampant abuse of steroids in the big leagues, a problem that many people suspected for years. Fans cheered as the record once seemingly insurmountable paid players seemingly superhuman. Now they are mocking take advantage of these juiced-up anti-heroes.
In the midst of the battle for Barry Bonds, 41, of San Francisco Giant, who needs only six home runs in a lifetime total eclipse of Babe Ruth and 48 to cross the baseball home run king Hank Aaron. A book called "Game of Shadows" details at the bottom of the steroid use of Bonds arguments'. Although not necessarily break the record of home runs, his legacy seems to be clouded in controversy. Some say Bonds should be removed from the record books. Others thought that the star should be close to his name. Others argue that his records should stand no matter what, and are rooting for him legendary figure passes Aaron.
A long history that many fans expect that the fall is the dryness of the World Series Chicago Cubs. It's been 98 years since the team's most popular Windy City has won more Grand Prix Baseball. Heartbreak was the watchword in recent seasons, with the legion of fans Cubbies do with horror as his team collapses again and again in the playoffs the team. 'S this year has a lot of promise, with a solid pitching staff anchored the team. The National League Central Division should be decided between the Cubs and Houston Astros, who lost the White Sox in the World Series last season.
As defending champions of baseball, the White Sox class of their chances of retaining the title. It was hard in the offseason, adding Javier Vazquez and Jim Thome to an already dominant team. A strong pitching staff would have to close the other teams with few problems, while Thome, Paul Konerko and Jermaine Dye offer plenty of pop to the plate. The White Sox can not be the most popular team in their own city, but still the best team in the league and have to try again this season.
Two other teams expected to fight for the World Series will renew their legendary rivalry this year. Boston Red Sox and Yankees have faced in spring training, with the number of hit batters on the rise, even before the start of the regular season. The Yankees are far from its glory days of the 1990s. From the Arizona Diamondback Luis Gonzalez hit a single winner in the 2001 World Series, New York was not the force they once were. The Red Sox, by contrast, have broken their bad luck in the championship by winning the 2004 World Series, defeating the Yankees in a historical series on the road. While the Toronto Blue Jays seem able to push their rich rivals, the safe money is on the Yankees and Red Sox to take the points in the playoffs.
Expected final standings:
Champions:
Chicago White Sox
Runners-up:
Chicago Cubs
National League
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Atlanta Braves
New York Mets
Philadelphia Phillies
Washington Nationals
Florida Marlins
Central
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Houston Astros
Cincinnati Reds
Pittsburgh Pirates
Milwaukee Brewers
West
San Francisco Giants
Arizona Diamondbacks
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego Padres
Colorado Rockies
American League
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Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Toronto Blue Jays
Baltimore Orioles
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Central
Chicago White Sox
Minnesota Twins
Cleveland Indians
Kansas City Royals
Detroit Tigers
Western
Seattle Mariners
Oakland Athletics


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