Major League Baseball begins the next step toward the World Series tonight as Texas hosts the New York Yankees in game one of the AL Championship series. New York publications already spent some time today talking about how important it is for the Yankees to win so television ratings stay strong but other national experts think Texas might have at least one advantage in the run game.

All three of the Brushbackpitch writers correctly predicted two of four Divisional series. Rich missed on the American League but nailed both National League series right on the nose. Andy hit Texas winning in five and Philadelphia sweeping the Reds but missed on Philadelphia’s win over Atlanta and the Yankees whitewashing of the Twins.

Tony hit the Texas and Philadelphia series but didn’t hit them squarely on the correct number of games. So … who cares? Yeah, you’re probably right.

Anyway, here are our picks for the League Championships:

Rich:
New York over Texas, six games
Philadelphia over San Francisco, five games

Tony:
New York over Texas, six games
Philadelphia over San Francisco, five games

Andy:
Texas over New York, six games
Philadelphia over San Francisco, six games