American League Central
Its official, Gods favorite sports movie is Major League! Nick Swisher (Right Fielder) and the Tribe have made a splash thus far in the young season. The team ranks in the top five in most offensive categories, and a solid defense that features a guy people should know about named Asdrubal Cabrera at short stop. He does have 3 errors on the season, but his fielding range, arm strength and accuracy cant be denied. There is good reason to believe that were talking about a perennial Gold Glover in the making. There are a few naysayers that point to the teams pitching staff not exactly setting the world on fire, but I think Cleveland and its fans will take forcing opponents to score a ton of runs in order to win. Detroit used to be an afterthought for a better part of a decade, but then the organization decided that enough was enough and put together a 5 year plan to turn things around, that was about 7 years ago and now Detroit being in the playoffs and contending for the World Series title is an expectation. Boasting the best pitcher in baseball (Justin Verlander) alongside baseballs best hitter (I love Mike Trout too, but cmon) Miguel Cabrera, who looks like he might feel like earning back to back Triple Crowns. As if that wasnt enough they have Prince Fielder making their roster somewhat unfair to opposing pitchers. Kansas City is technically a surprise, however third place at this point loses its luster when 2 games under .500 is added to the mix. Their position in the division has more to do with Minnesotas playoff window looking to be firmly closed shut. Somewhere Tori Hunter is smiling (Ha! Minnesota is at Detroit where Hunter is playing at the time this article is being written).
Dante R Maddox
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Dante R Maddox got started in writing about pop culture in 2007. He developed his conversational style majoring in English and minoring in speech communication, his desire to write as if he were speaking to the reader face to face was the bane of many professors. An odd blend of geek cred and regular fella chic', you're just as likely to end up talking about baseball or politics as you are about comic books and movies (just don't mention Tucker Carlson, you are addressing the man who will go to jail for assault in the future after all). He wrote a book called The Lineage of Durge that's available on Amazon for a small amount of money, he's writing a second while acting as Editor-in-Stuff over at Saga Online Press, there is a graphic novel expansion of his book series also in the works as well as continued development of his cheesecannon, one day Canada...one day (Seriously, a piece of ham, you slice it up and now it's bacon?!?!? I say thee nay!!!)
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