Dizzy Dean's Ghost recently visited me in the night and bestowed upon me the gift of prognostication, but with the caveat that it's based on the collective consciousness of all baseball pundits. So, I now have the ability to gaze into the future through the eyes of all baseball experts and I will grant you the insight to know all about the NLCS between your St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Since I now have the combined expertise of every sports writer, talk show host, and former player please allow me to point out a few things about the teams that the hive-mind has told me, before the prediction:
- St. Louis has a better hitting lineup between the two, however, LA has better hitters
- LA has the best pitcher in the series with Clayton Kershaw, but Adam Wainwright is just as good
- Either St. Louis or LA has the better bullpen
- Don Mattingly has lead the Dodgers as their manager since 2011 and so has a year more Major League managerial experience, but Mike Matheny lead the Cardinals to the NLCS last year. The edge goes to Mr. M
What the collective conscious of baseball pundits has said to me makes a lot of sense so far. I am so glad that they all see the same things that we do. However, there is one last thing I must do before I lose this power: I must predict. See. Prognosticate. I must have a VISION...
The baseball experts are all in agreement:
St. Louis or Los Angeles in 4, 5, 6, or 7 games.
Wow, I feel, different now. As if the total knowledge of hundreds of experts has suddenly left me. I hope that what they have told me and what I have relayed to you has been helpful.
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