2013 MLB Season Update: Early Surprises And The NL East

American League West

This year Major League Baseball moved the Houston Astros to the AL West, which is tantamount to getting rid of two teams. Despite the Little Leaguers at the bottom of the division the AL West looks to be competitive. The Angels are off to a slow start but are showing signs of life on a 5 game win streak. The Texas Rangers (Murica€™s team) sit atop the division with Nelson Cruz and Adrian Beltre supplying plenty of power to the lineup and Yu Darvish heading a surprisingly competitive pitching staff. A 3.48 team ERA is nothing to sneeze at. The Oakland A€™s sit in second place at 2 games above .500, not exactly the cat birds seat but it could be worse. The A€™s are the shining example that baseballs economic structure is a non issue at best since it seems like the A€™s could start me at center field and still win the division. If the A€™s manage to hang in there, the AL West could turn into a three horse race which is always worth watching. Oh and Seattle has a team called The Mariners, seriously they have uniforms and everything.
 
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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!!!)