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Archive for July 30th, 2009


Playoffs? Playoffs!? Omar, Please, Don’t Make a Deal 21,460

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Jonathan

My brother called me out today. “Worst team in baseball, huh?” He had other things to say too. That wasn’t the worst of it.

I guess that’s the kind of criticism you take when you start putting your thoughts onto the internet for everyone to read. If you had asked me a week ago what the chances were that the Mets would put together five straight wins at any point for the rest of the season, I wouldn’t have given them any better than one chance in ten.

Well, that’s why they play the games.

Jason could probably run a graph telling us the odds of any given team winning a certain number of games for the rest of the year.  But for the next day’s games, what would it matter? It’s only a prediction. Underdogs win every day.

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Hamels, Lee, Happ 13,800

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Jason

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Jonathan, how much does a top three of Cole Hamels, Cliff Lee, and J.A. Happ scare you?

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