Okay, I’m a former college baseball player, and a former high school baseball coach. So as I sit here watching “Baseball Tonight” on ESPN, which will be followed by the first game of the 2010 season, featuring the Yankees against the Red Sox, permit me for this digression from TV teaching topics for this “baseball blog.”

I simply must make my 2010 predictions, just for the heck of it, and so in October we can re-visit this blog and see how wrong I was. Okay, here we go.

AL East: Yankees
AL Central: Tigers
AL West: Angels
Wild Card: Rays

NL East: Phillies
NL Central: Cubs
NL West: Dodgers
Wild Card: Cardinals

World Series: Rays vs. Phillies
World Series Winner: Phillies in seven games

Of course, I will root hard from my Cards, and hope like heck that the Cubs fail to live up to my prediction. After all, they are the Cubs.