It’s also interesting that, regardless of who wins the wild card, the NL finalists have between them won a grand total of two World Championships since 1908. It may be hard to pick an underdog.
And if you exclude the Yankees, the other 7 playoff teams have between them won four Championships since 1948.
Aren’t the Cubs by default underdogs?
Dear Mr. Glavine -
Do you hear that sound? It’s distant, but swelling, and strangely beautiful, a choir of angels singing your name in perfect four part harmony. It washes over you, calming, gentle, carrying away your cares like a warm tide. Can you hear it?
It is the call of the buffet line at Sizzler. Heed that call, Mr. Glavine.
I suppose, but they’ve won twice as many Series (and twice as many NL pennants) as the Phillies have.
I was at Baltimore watching the Yankees beat the O’s and I swear most of the stadium was scoreboard watching more than watching the game on the field. There were a lot of Yankee and Philly’s fans at the game. The score slowly coming up caused much discussion.
Philly’s fans, especially the older ones were extremely happy that the Mets can now be called the Greatest Late Season collapse.
Now I know Met fans like to blame Willie, but the untouchable Minaya did a bad job building this team. He mostly had ancient starters (like the Yanks) but not enough depth to back it up (unlike the Yanks). He allowed the teams #1 asset of last year to be wiped out by free agency (the bullpen). His only big signing was the old an oft-injured Alou. He made no significant trades at the deadline. Omar failed the Met fans and Willie takes most of the heat.
This seems extremely unfair to me.
Jim
How does it feel, bitches?
drop, a Cub fan until 1969
Pretty lousy. Thanks for asking.
It’s the same reason that managers seem to get most of the credit when their teams win, even though it often doesn’t have that much to do with the manager.
Ozzie Guillen was crowned a genius by millions in 2005, when he was basically handed the best rotation in baseball, and in a year where a few pretty good players had out-of-sight, career years that they will never repeat.
I don’t think the manager is unimportant or merely a figurehead, but even a baseball genius can’t turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse.