Well after getting swept by the Cubs this weekend, I have to wonder if 1) Can the Cubs keep it up and stay with Milwaukee or can Milwaukee hold them off. Brewers are 4-6 in the last 10 games. 2. Astros don't have it for one of their famed 2nd half runs. Just don't have the pitching for it this year. 3. What Sid thinks.
Not really related but with the Phillies being the first MLB team to 10,000 losses I thought I'd post their competition. 10,000: Phillies • 9,681: Braves • 9,425: Cubs • 9,046: Pirates • 8,945: Reds Closest AL team is the Orioles with 8,629.
Believe it or not, I think the Cubs have the starting pitching to make a hard run at the Brewers. Lilly, Hill, and Marquis all have been respectable so far, and Zambrano seems to be coming around to the "potential Cy Young" form everyone was hoping for. There is no question that they have a very capable offense. The Brewers have an outstanding team and are not going to roll over. IMO the difference down the stretch could be the Cubs' veteran experience vs. the Brewers' untested youth. We'll see. Re: most losses. I don't see that as signifying anything other than the age of the franchise. The original NL teams have been in existence longer than the original AL teams, so they are going to have more wins and more losses.
P.S. The thought occurred to me that the Phillies have been the losingest team all along. It's funny that the media is jumping on the 10,000th loss as if they were not the losingest team until they hit 10,000. :lol:
I believe that in the first half of last century the Phils had a stretch where they were under .500 in 30 out of 31 seasons. I think that is why Connie Mack is Matt Millen's role model.
I could be wrong, but I believe it was the A's that Connie Mack managed. Whoever managed the Phils, your point is well made.
Gip, I think that after reading this, you'll agree that there is no resemblance between Connie Mack and Matt Millen. In fact, Detroit fans should wish that Millen had an iota of Mack's qualities. It's quite long but interesting to anyone who follows the history of MLB.
I remember Mack in very early 40s when he would come to fenway. Always wore a black suit. Phil. A's were cella dwellers almost every year in those days.
8) This could be the Cub's year. Look back through my thread and you'll see that I predicted the Brewers would fade, based on their early season performance here. They were eleven games up when I said it. They looked talented, but young and confused to me. I believe I said then, that the only way they would win out, was if the Cubs, Cards and Astros let them. Well here we are and the Cards don't seem to have enough; the Strohs are playing dead; but the Cubs have been on fire since Pinella went nuclear. He didn't just take the gas like Dusty Baker. He demonstrated to his team that this season would be a living, daily hell if they didn't start playing better. So they did... "There is more in the world, Dr. Van Helsing, than is dreamed of in your philosophies." ...........Count Dracula