Undisputed statistic of the week, from ESPN's blurb on the Red Sox' win over the Orioles today:
"Baltimore lost for the sixth time in seven games, and dropped its 14th straight Sunday game. The major league record for consecutive losses on a specific day is 21 -- the 1939 St. Louis Browns and 1890 Pittsburgh Innocents both did it on Tuesdays."
Which begs the question: if they were so Innocent, then why did God hate them so much? Seriously though, if the US devoted a tenth the manpower to foreign intelligence gathering that ESPN does to digging up meaningless statistics, we'd probably be fighting, like, way fewer wars right now.
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What your post ignores is that Baltimore has never failed to make the playoffs when they've had 16 or more Sunday victories. I think that if the O's can put up a few day-of-rest W's in the second half, they could just get themselves back into the wild-card chase.
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