You don’t remember when everyone made fun of me for abandoning plans to watch the US Chess Championships in St. Louis because of the Ferguson protests?
My pessimist just figured this was a 93-win team on paper, then take away or significantly reduce the contributions of Bryant, Darvish, Lester and Quintana. What’s that leave you? A 78-win team?
The whole “not even in its prime” thing was always wrong and nobody wanted to believe it. We have big piles of evidence that players have never peaked as late as we thought and basically have no peak in the 2010s. They come up and mash from 22-25 and that has a decent chance of being their best seasons.
Run differential for the last 23 or whatever games is -1 per game. They’ve been winning all the close ones and losing all the blowouts. That’s what lucky bad teams do. You're better than using run differential over a 23 game sample. You've lost a tick on your fastball from your doom-boner prime. Lol as if you don’t use arbitrary endpoints any chance you get. How’s Kyle Hendricks?
this would not be what i'd say once they hit the playoffs come on now because nothing actually matters once they hit the playoffs The fact that we will be in the wild card game matters
They’ve been playing like a very bad team and covering it up with sequencing luck for almost a month. I think this is wrong. I'm not sure, but David will have numbers to prove it. Run differential for the last 23 or whatever games is -1 per game. They’ve been winning all the close ones and losing all the blowouts. That’s what lucky bad teams do.
http://mlb.mlb.com/images/0/8/8/290121088/081218_bote_bat_flip.gif Apologize. The bat doesn’t even do a full rotation, i.e a flip. It would be like if some guy claimed he could do a backflip and then landed on his head. The HR was legendary. The run around the bases was legendary. The bat flip was pedestrian.