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1 posted on 09/17/2017 4:09:39 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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Burn on...big river....burn on....


2 posted on 09/17/2017 4:11:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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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.


3 posted on 09/17/2017 4:14:42 PM PDT by discostu (Things are in their place, The heavens are secure, The whole thing explodes in my face)
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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.


4 posted on 09/17/2017 4:16:41 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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Rangers were on a reverse streak of 5 losses in a row, but they blew that this afternoon by actually winning a game.


5 posted on 09/17/2017 4:17:02 PM PDT by TomGuy
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I’ll only care about such a streak when it’s done by the Red Sox. /s


9 posted on 09/17/2017 4:19:17 PM PDT by Enchante
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Remember when the lake caught fire?

Actually it was the Cuyahoga River that caught fire. More than once by the way.

10 posted on 09/17/2017 4:19:23 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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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.


11 posted on 09/17/2017 4:19:25 PM PDT by lee martell
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The nice thing about this team is they're so likeable. They're having fun playing and that has created a terrific environment.

I was downtown yesterday. With the WINdians having an afternoon game and insanely gorgeous weather the atmosphere was fantastic.

13 posted on 09/17/2017 4:27:38 PM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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In the movie "Moneyball" they have a brief TV sports news clip where the reporter points out that the longest winning streak for the 1927 New York Yankees -- arguably the greatest team of all time -- was only nine games.

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.

15 posted on 09/17/2017 5:24:17 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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You are right about Cleveland, gracefully downsizing and quietly remaking itself into a desirable place to be. Thirty years ago i could go downtown on a Saturday afternoon and throw a bowling ball for a hundred yards down Euclid Avenue and not come close to hitting a person or a vehicle. It was a ghost town. Now, thousands of middle and upscale people have moved back in or are waiting for state of the art apartments in new construction or what were once closed and obsolete office buildings. And at E 9th and Euclid is the Cleveland Trust rotunda building, a classic example of early twentieth century mable and granite grandeur, which is now maybe the classiest grocery store in the world! The success of the Cavs and Indians are just frosting on a very enjoyable cake.
16 posted on 09/17/2017 6:29:32 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Pirates are sleepwalking through the end of another dismal season. It hurts to envy Cleveland.


18 posted on 09/17/2017 7:04:45 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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Only reason I knew about the streak is someone here posted after every win once it got close.


19 posted on 09/18/2017 3:26:08 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Everybody can go on a streak

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.

20 posted on 09/18/2017 5:58:35 PM PDT by xp38
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