Sometimes even the best thought-out ideas, the plans with the strongest of foundations... crumble completely and spectacularly.
Then of course, you have what I did... whatever that was.
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Is this not the matchup some of us anticipated, and some of us dreamed of, when the post-season began? On the one hand, a powerhouse that comfortably cruised to the the best record in the league, facing off with a squad whose season didn't take off until they replaced their manager halfway through?
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And then there were four. Astros and Yankees, Phillies and Padres.
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And then there were eight. First team to win three games advances.
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Let's sail the windy seas of Accountancy, and crunch a few numbers.
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What happened? it happened, that's all. It happened like a car wreck or a rape or an aneurysm in the brain, an arbitrary punishment selected by an unseen God for an unknown reason which could have happened to John or Joe or George Bush or the St. Louis Cardinals, but which sought out the Toronto Blue Jays and sat upon their shoulders with wings of iron.
--- Bill James, The 1988 Baseball Abstract
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I just couldn't let this horrible finale settle without writing something quick... call it a funeral wake-take, if you will.
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This is now the Boss Thread, at least until I drop the Report Card. Like an anvil on my foot.
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You may recall that around this time last year I explained to the world and everyone why I was Through With Pythagoras. I had long given serious attention to the teaching of the old desert sage, but those days were now behind me.
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The Blue Jays are certainly going to the post-season. Who they play, and where, remains to be determined.
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Buffalo won big in its penultimate game of 2022.
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