Yankees-Orioles Predictions

Andy McPhail reports for full-time duty Tuesday. At about 6:45 he will begin to see just how much damage Peter Angelos has done to baseball in Baltimore. That's about the time he will notice that Camden Yards becomes Yankee Stadium South 9 times a year.

Here are my predictions for the Series:

Game 1: Yankees 8 Orioles 2 - Jeremy Guthrie has his first bad outing as a starter, overthrowing while trying to show the Yankees and McPhail that he's for real.

Game 2: Yankees 6 Orioles 3 - The game is close for 6 innings with Bedard and Clemens battling it out. Bedard leaves in the 7th with more hamstring tightness and the Yankees pound the O's bullpen, allowing Clemens to get victory 350. (BTW, not bad for a guy who appeared to be on a downward spiral in the mid-90's, then "bulked up" and became unhittable right in the middle of the steroids era. Funny how few people "suspect" him despite his Bonds-like performance spike in his mid to late 30's.)

Game 3: Yankees 4 Orioles 0 - The O's can't touch Wang while Cabrera makes just enough mistakes to lose.

Am I the only one to notice that Dusty Baker wasn't in the booth for his normal ESPN Monday Night Baseball? Maybe I'm reading too much into it but it does seem interesting...