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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: 1985 Prediction (or: you heard it here first)
Message-ID: <515@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 11:08:42 EST
Article-I.D.: fisher.515
Posted: Thu Jan 31 11:08:42 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 00:58:47 EST
Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics
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We now have less than one month to go before Spring training opens.
This seems like a good time to make a stab at predicting September's
results.  Why a good time?  Two reasons:

	(1) Major personnel shifts are probably over, and
	(2) I'll be the first.

So here goes:

		1985 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GUESSTIMATES

	  NATIONAL  LEAGUE			  AMERICAN LEAGUE

	EAST		WEST			EAST		WEST

	New York	Atlanta			Detroit		Chicago
	Chicago		San Diego		Toronto		Minnesota
	Pittsburgh	Los Angeles		Boston		Oakland
	Philadelphia	Houston			Baltimore	Kansas City
	Montreal	Cincinnati		New York	California
	St. Louis	San Fransisco		Cleveland	Seattle
						Milwaukee	Texas

Best Bet: Atlanta 
Best Dark Horse: Boston
Best Race: NL East

If you're wondering about the prognosticator's track record, you
wonder well.  Last year, I only made predictions about the National
League.  Did rather well in the West, but I'd rather not talk
about the East (it's not MY fault that Dallas Green successfully
obtained a pitching staff during the course of the season at minimal
cost).

			1984 NATIONAL LEAGUE RESULTS

		ACTUAL					PREDICTED

	EAST		WEST			EAST		WEST

	Chicago		San Diego		Philadelphia	San Diego
	New York	Atlanta			Montreal	Los Angeles
	Philadelphia	Los Angeles		New York	Atlanta
	St. Louis	Houston			Pittsburgh	Houston
	Montreal	Cincinnati		St. Louis	Cincinnati
	Pittsburgh	San Fransisco		Chicago(groan)	San Fransisco


Hey, wait a minute! My crystal ball's starting to fog...

					David Rubin
			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david