When you think about it, 30000+ average attendance is pretty darn good.
Posted on 09/17/2017 4:09:39 PM PDT by SamAdams76
The Cleveland Indians have won 24 of the last 25 games that they have played in MLB baseball. That is pretty impressive. But everybody apparently stopped paying attention after the 22 game streak was broken.
I'm more impressed with consistency and not as impressed with streaks. Everybody can go on a streak. But consistency is what you really want.
I used to not pay so much attention to the Cleveland teams. Mistake by the Lake and all that. From 1946 to 1955, the Cleveland Browns football club did very well under Coach Paul Brown. But that was long time ago. I think the Cleveland Browns were named after Paul Brown but I'm not sure. Be quite the coincidence if the Cleveland Browns just happened to have their first coach be named Brown as well.
Coach Brown was not a bad guy but he drove those players pretty hard. This was when they did not make all that much money. They had to get jobs off-season to make ends meet.
Bill Belichick used to coach the Cleveland Browns but he did not do as well and his taciturn style was not all that appreciated. So he moved on back to New York and then to New England and the rest is history. At some point in time, Belichick might be remembered as a better coach than Paul Brown but probably not in Cleveland.
Now Cleveland, that has always been a town that did not get a lot of respect. Remember when the lake caught fire? We all laughed about that. But I drive through Cleveland a lot when I'm going to Chicago and I've always been impressed with the skyline there. Also, once I get past the city headed west, I like to stop at that Crocker Park area where they have all those hotels. It's a good stopping point when you are driving between New York City and Chicago and there are lots of decent restaurants in that area to take your dinner and a couple of beers.
I basically like Cleveland so I am hoping that those Cleveland Indians do well in the playoffs and get to the World Series, even if that probably means beating the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.
Burn on...big river....burn on....
Problem with baseball is the season’s so long and results are so randomized who really knows how good a team is, it’s all about streaks. Prior to their 24-1 run they were 69-56, not very far above 500. So which team are they? Both, neither, who knows.
What the Indians did was simply remarkable, about as well as the game can be played for three weeks and change. Run differential of +104 or something, which a good team will get for an entire season.
Rangers were on a reverse streak of 5 losses in a row, but they blew that this afternoon by actually winning a game.
Once football season starts, nobody cares about the Rangers.
I grew up in Boston so when I was a kid, I used to take the Green Line over to Fenway and watch games for $1.25. That's all it used to cost for a bleacher seat, well into the 1970s. My newspaper route money would cover that easy. Hot dogs were 35 cents and if I ordered a beer, they did not give me too hard a time, even though I was maybe 13 or 14.
I think the Cubs will be very dangerous in the playoffs. They sleepwalked throughout the year, but they’ll be ready to go once the playoffs start.
I’ll only care about such a streak when it’s done by the Red Sox. /s
Actually it was the Cuyahoga River that caught fire. More than once by the way.
I think a smaller percentage of people keep up with baseball compared to decades ago. We have so many other choices nowadays, all day and all night. The days of the Big Three networks is long, long over and will not return, unless Krazy Kim causes a grid-malfunction.
I was downtown yesterday. With the WINdians having an afternoon game and insanely gorgeous weather the atmosphere was fantastic.
I think one issue here is that long streaks are seen as a combination of skill AND a bit of luck. This is evident when consider that some of the records for long streaks in team sports are held by teams that don't go on to win a championship that season. In the NHL, the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins hold the record for the longest winning streak (17 games). The 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers have the longest unbeaten streak (including ties) at 35 games. Both teams lost in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
That is a pretty decent winning percentage. .552 is a good season winning percentage. The Cubs are leading their division with a .557 winning percentage and the Yankees are the first Wild Card Seed with a .550 winning percentage. The second AL seed has a .520.
Pirates are sleepwalking through the end of another dismal season. It hurts to envy Cleveland.
Only reason I knew about the streak is someone here posted after every win once it got close.
No not 20 + game winning streaks. In the modern era of baseball it's only happened 4 times. Another 3 were prior to 1900 and one from the old National Association also prior to 1900. Only one streak 26 by the NY Giants exceeds the Indians run this year. It had unofficial ties embedded in that streak so the Indians in a purist sense set the record for the AL and MLB.
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