AL Playoffs kick it off tonight

Tampa Bay at Texas 5:07 TBS

Starting Pitchers
TB-Matt Moore
Tex-C.J. Wilson

This game kicks off the playoffs and it should be a good one.  Will the Rays be able to regroup and get focused for the task at hand?  Will Texas continue to dominate Tampa? My thoughts are I'm not going to bet against Tampa to win this series but I think Texas takes this first game.  C.J. Wilson has dominated Tampa which includes the regular season along with the division series last year when Texas and Tampa played.  The Rays send out Matt Moore a young promising lefty who throws around 97 mph. This will be his second major league start.  The Rays just made this switch yesterday they were going to start Neiman but then switched.  Not sure about the move but then again Joe Maddon put a pinch hitter in the game the other night who is hitting .108 for the year and the guy hits a miracle home run so who am I to question the mad genius? 


Detroit at New York 8:37 TBS

Starting Pitchers

Det-Justin Verlander(2011 possible MVP/Cy Young winner)
NY-C.C.Sabathia

Lets see the Yanks aren't my favorite team but they let Tampa sweep them to get into the playoffs so maybe their not that bad.  As far as the game can anyone stop Verlander this year?  Doesn't look like it but Sabathia has had a pretty decent season (although the guys uniform looks like big baggy pajamas) and its in New York so its a tough pick.  All my Detroit friends tell me this is the year and it might be. Detroit has been rock solid all year and they have a good offense as well so it should be one heck of a series it has more of an ALCS feel to it.  I'm going with Detroit in game 1 Verlander is unstoppable as a matter of fact Verlander might just pitch the whole series that's how good he as been.  So lets see.


I'm just going to pick a winner on the games for the playoffs. Trying pick a score for a MLB game is like trying to predict how many times my kid is going to ask me to take him to the park in a 1 day period.   Which is a lot and hard to judge how many times I actually end up going back to the same old park.   Anyways any other predictions out there?