SI's World Series pick: Cleveland will end 67-year title drought in 2015

[Auggie]

Text, video and lots of laughs at the link: http://www.si.com/mlb/2015/03/27/si-mlb-preview-playoff-bracket-indians-world-series

Really, Sports Illustrated? REALLY???

[KamaAina]

1. Silly SI. April 1 isn't until next Wednesday.

[Auggie]

4. +1,000,000

This thread won't see a better response.

[trumad]

2. That's like me picking them.

[madinmaryland]

3. Sorry, Auggie. Wait til next year.

[Auggie]

5. Next year, pfffft ...

Next century.

[joeybee12]

6. They're screwed then...nt

[El Supremo]

7. What is Cleveland's Curse?

[Auggie]

8. The Curse of Colavito:

From Wiki:

The Curse of Rocky Colavito is a phenomenon that supposedly prevents the Cleveland Indians baseball team from winning, be it the World Series, the American League pennant, reaching postseason play, or even getting into a pennant race. Its origin is traced back to the unpopular trade of right fielder Rocky Colavito for Harvey Kuenn in 1960.

The 1960 trade between the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians sent "The Rock", the home run champion of 1959 to the Tigers for Harvey Kuenn, batting champion of 1959. It was a unique trade between a home run champion, 42 home runs in '59, and a hitting champion, .359 batting average in '59. Fans in Cleveland were outraged by the betrayal of their GM Frank "Trader" Lane. In only 2 years at the Indians, Lane had taken a mostly successful 40-man roster and had traded away every single player he had inherited. Fans in Detroit were mostly happy about the trade.

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Rocky_Colavito

[Kingofalldems]

9. Besides being a great power hitter,

Colavito had an arm like a howitzer. Great player. I was lucky enough to have a baseball card of him back then.
He was once ejected from a game for going into the stands and beating up a fan for harassing his father and wife.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Whew. That de-jinxes the cover.

[Auggie]

11. Barring injury, I'm picking the Nationals