AMERICAN LEAGUE

By KIM HARMON

Published: Mar 29, 2001 12:00 am

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Eastern Division

New York Yankees â Best pitching staff in baseball and Derek Jeter.

Boston Red Sox â No go without Nomar.

Toronto Blue Jays â Next trade they make will be for someone who is already dead..

Tampa Bay Devil Rays â Someone must be better than Baltimore Orioles.

Baltimore Orioles â Rotten management has - and will continue to - plague this team.

Central Division

Cleveland Indians â Juan Gonzalez is playing for a new contract.

Chicago White Sox â David Wells helps big time.

Kansas City Royals â You know, not a half bad team. Look out for Mike Sweeney.

Detroit Tigers â Cavernous Comerica Park is a black hole for hitter.

Minnesota Twins â No money, no chance.

Western Division

Oakland Athletics â One of the best pitchers in baseball (Tim Hudson)_and one of the best hitters (Jason Giambi)_in baseball.

Texas Rangers â A $250 million contract gets âem second place..

Seattle Mariners â You canât continue to lose your best players and expect to win anything.

Anaheim Angels â Life is not fun in the land of Disney.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Eastern Division

New York Mets â Look out for Glendon Rusch and Robin Ventura.

Atlanta Braves â Iâll root for them only because Rico Brogna is at first.

Montreal Expos â Vladimir Guerrero and Jose Vidro are two of the best players in the game.

Florida Marlins â Sharp pitching gives âem a chance.

Philadelphia Phillies â New carpet at the Vet, but still a bad team.

Central Division

St. Louis Cardinals â Big boppers should help overcome questionable pitching.

Houston Astros â Will pitcher Jose Lima (7-16) return from the land of the dead?

Chicago Cubs â Sammy got his money, but the team still isnât very good.

Cincinnati Reds â Ken Griffey Jr is hobbled . . . much like the franchise has been hobbled for years.

Milwaukee Brewers â The Brewers will ride the allure of their new ballpark to a modest fifth-place finish.

Pittsburgh Pirates â The Pirates will ride the allure of their new ballpark to a less than modest sixth-place finish.

Western Division

Arizona Diamondbacks â Dâbacks need to win to pay off their bills.

San Francisco Giants â Wonât succeed in playoffs as long as Barry Bonds is on the team.

Colorado Rockies â Will pitching finally make a difference in Coors?

Los Angeles Dodgers â Spend, spend, spend, spend, spend . . . lose, lose, lose, lose, lose.

San Diego Padres â Even the Dodgers are better than the Padres.

American League

Division Winners â New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, and Oakland Athletics. Wildcard â Texas Rangers.

Playoffs - New York over Texas and Oakland over Cleveland.

ALCS â New York over Oakland.

National League

Division Winners â New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals and Arizona Diamondbacks. Wildcard â Atlanta Braves.

Playoffs - New York s over Arizona and St. Louis over Atlanta.

NLCS â St. Louis over New York.

WORLD SERIES

New York over St. Louis, 4-1

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Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

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A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

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Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

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Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

Clarity on Reservoir Road and the Rochambeau Trail

Please stop referring to your fellow Newtowners as the Mob. I was at the Legislative Council meeting where Mr. Pisani insulted the intelligence of a room full of Newtown voters; twice, and not in a satirical way. Plenty of new projects have been given the green light - the repurposing of the Taunton Press property is a welcome addition to Town, a new retail center is under construction on Church Hill Rd there are ongoing plans for the existing Fairfield Hills campus. Newtown is a wonderful place to live. Kudos to the Town officials who have managed to grow Newtown and maintain a small town feel, which may mean saying no to development more often than you would like. There will always be two sides to any proposal - different points of view are welcome and essential - name calling adds nothing to the conversation.

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