PLAYOFF TIME

It’s that time of year…baseball playoffs have begun. Last year the Boston Red Sox broke the 87 year old curse and became World Champions. After dropping behind three games, the Bo-Sox rallied back to beat the New York Yankees in Seven heart pounding games. We can only hope this year will be as dramatic and exciting. Visit the website http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb /mlb/ps/y2005/index.jsp to find out who’s in the playoffs this year and what players to look out for. After reading through perform the following tasks.

1. What 8 teams have made it to the playoffs?

2. Choose one of the Division Series and create a schedule of their impending games.

3. Choose one player from the website and explain why they deserve to be in the World Series. Include stats and any other facts that you can find.

4. Choose the team. Who do you think will win the 2005 World Series and why?

Keep track of the playoffs and see how your predictions pay off. You never know what can happen when October comes around!