Actual experts pick the World Series teams

FoxSport "Expert" World Series picks

Since I offered up my World Series picks yesterday, here is a set of sports "experts" with their picks. Nobody agrees with mine, but 4 out of 5 of them put the Phillies into the World Series. None of them came up with a Phillies-Rangers series, though; only one has the Rangers victorious over the Rays. To his credit, he gets the Rangers to the World Series.

As I write this, the Rays have lost Game 1 to the Rangers, the Twins have lost Game 1 to the Yankees, and the Reds have been historically no-hit by Roy Halladay in a loss to the Phillies. Given that, it's hard to bet against the Phillies getting back to the Fall Classic, considering they've got Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels pitching along with Halladay, and Rollins, Howard, Victorino, and the canny, skilled Chase Utley in the field. Apparently, Rollins has a tender hamstring; that would affect things a bit if he gets significantly hobbled.

Thomas Boswell writes about the futility of trying to pick teams in the baseball playoffs:
Predictably unpredictable