World Cup, for Baseball?

[Conner]

American lineup: (starter / backup)

C - Piazza / Mauer
1b - Helton / Texeria
2b - Kent / Giles
3b - Arod / Blalock
SS - M Young / D Jeter
OF - Sheffield, Damon, C Crawford
Bench - Rolen, Berkman, Dunn, Giles
SP - Schimdt, Sheets, Oswalt, Clemens, RJ, Schilling, Peavy,
RP - Lidge, Nathan, Foulke, Wagner

Alex Rodriguez should clearly be the shortstop. There's just better thirdbasemen options than Michael Young or Jeter at short.

[WharfRat]

American lineup: (starter / backup)

C - Piazza / Mauer
1b - Helton / Texeria
2b - Kent / Giles
3b - Arod / Blalock
SS - M Young / D Jeter
OF - Sheffield, Damon, C Crawford
Bench - Rolen, Berkman, Dunn, Giles
SP - Schimdt, Sheets, Oswalt, Clemens, RJ, Schilling, Peavy,
RP - Lidge, Nathan, Foulke, Wagner

Alex Rodriguez should clearly be the shortstop. There's just better thirdbasemen options than Michael Young or Jeter at short.

I'd want Rolen at 3rd, ARod at short. And if you needed a backup 3B, I'd take Chavez over Blalock.

Funny Article, with teams and predicted results:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... eld/050511

That looks eerily like the story I linked three posts up...?