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If you want full points for predicting this years baseball champs, you’ve got 2 more days to get your picks in. Here’s some more pundit predictions to help you make up your mind.

ESPN Radio: Mac, Jurko and Harry from ESPN AM 1000 radio in Chicago lay out their picks. I guess it comes as no surprise that one of them picked the Cubs to win it all. What’s it been now, like, 99 years or something?

Yahoo Sports: Jeff Passan and Tim Brown map out a number of predictions for the 2007 season, which amounts to another AL victor sweep, this time being the D-Mats fueled Red Sox and the 2006 also-rans Detroit Tigers coming out on top.

Baseball Prospectus: If you’re a paying customer to one of the better number crunching online baseball sites out there (I’m not, hint hint), you might be interested in this Top 30 list of the MLB teams, ordered based on runs scored and allowed per team. A novel approach, and Baseball Prospectus often gets this stuff right.

Found some more preseason prediction information

Salon: King Kaufman has wrapped up his 2007 picks, the meat of which has the 9 time AL East winning Yankees missing the playoffs, and Detroit coming from the Wild Card spot to win the whole darn thing. Bold move, King, bold move.

ESPN: The super trio of Peter Gammons, Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick predict out the winners on a special roundtable discussion.

Sports Illustrated: While not a full prediction, there’s some good info here about both who NOT to pick, as well as making the case for an all LA World Series

DocSports.com: If you prefer an angle more from a bookies perspective, check out the Doc, who is going with the safe picks, NY and the California teams.

Tomorrow, being friday and the end of the week, is sure to have some more columnists weighing in with their preseason picks.

As the week is coming to a close before Sunday’s opening day, the pundits are starting to make their own predictions for the upcoming MLB season. As they all come in, we’ll put up a group that will include all the various pundits from major publications as well as those that we can find in the blogosphere.

Today’s findings:

King Kaufman, from Salon, lays out the National League.

Wizbang Sports, thinks the Yankees will win it all in 2007.

More coming…

Well, the day is finally here. Sporcle is now open for making picks. We are just in beta, so the only sport season at this point that you can pick for is the Major League Baseball 2007 season. There isn’t too much yet, just simple picking, group management, and a group message board. We’ll be adding some more social networking features and sports seasons soon, so check back! The NBA and NHL playoff seasons are right around the corner, and you can be sure we’ll have those picks for you.

Go make your picks now. We would love to hear your comments…either here or at the feedback page.

All the pieces are falling into place, and the launch date is just a few days away. We’ll announce the launch here, when it happens. Stay tuned.