American League Central

Rays went through the Yankees and then went through, who did they get in the second round? In the ALCS, they got Cleveland.

So they went through, you know, I mean, the Yankees team, just because they're the Yankees, and then a Cleveland team that, all right, you know, they won the AL Central and they got by the White Sox, but that was an okay team.

Brewers went through the Dodgers in the NLCS.

It was the Braves before that, if I'm not mistaken.

To be

fair, the Orioles did finish ahead of three AL Central teams and three AL West teams.

So, yeah, they were just in the wrong division or something.

They had – Yeah, they were only a game and a half worse than the Astros, who made the division and got to play home games, or made the playoffs, got to play home games in the playoffs.

They don't.

They are not playing baseball, as you said.

They are playing Cancun baseball right now, and we are moving on to our AL Central predictions.

And, of course, we were all dead right with the Tigers.

I mean, Tristan Peter might be the unsung hero of the Chicago White Sox.

I'm going with the 18 pitch at bat because I really felt like the White Sox were winning the American League Central after that game in a toxic way.

Obviously, it bit them in the butt.

It got down to the final out with Brian Rocchio the next game.

hundred games in three straight years with the astros and did not win that award 2025 he was the favorite you know at the all-star break probably going into the trade deadline that was his year to win the award we all know what happened after that um staved off collapse didn't win your division did not win the award so you know, maybe next year's the year.

Maybe you got to bounce back, win the AL Central, have a great year.

Because if you don't, but you keep winning, expectations are going to be too high and then you're just never going to win it.

Yeah, true.

Every time you go to the Midwest, dumb shit is going to happen.

Yeah, whenever they play the Central, it's...

Yeah.

And there's three more Central, four, five more Central teams on this list of stupid losses? Hold on.

Yep.

So more than half of what's left are centrals?

Like, stakes at this point, game three, aren't as high.

I think the Chase DeLauder home run puts it up to a four to me.

And the SEC...

Is this a sign of a really, really great conference that anybody can beat anybody? Or is it more of a sign of maybe, I don't want to say mediocre, but a less powerful conference? You know, you talk about baseball, like the American League Central.

Is that a weak division where anybody can win it? Is it the same with the SEC now, fellas? where anybody can beat anybody and it's not that much of a powerhouse anymore?

Personally, I don't think there is an elite team in the SEC that we have seen in the past, Eric.

Don't get me wrong.

Look at the AL Central and the AL West and the Records.

American League was very down.

Outside of Tampa and the Yankees, the American League was garbage.