radio@spuxll.UUCP (Rick Farina) (07/11/85)
On Wednesday's pay-cablecast of the Mets-Reds game, Met announcers Ralph Kiner and Fran Healy began discussing team winning and losing streaks. The Cubs' recent 13-game skid came up in the conversation. Kiner then claimed that since 1900, 71 teams have had losing streaks of 13 or more games in a season, and NOT ONE of them won the division title or pennant in the season of their losing streak. Now, I don't know where Kiner got this tidbit from, but it sounds like something spit out of the Elias database, so it's probably reliable. So, the way I see it, we can either choose to ignore history and continue to speculate on the starting time of games in Wrigley Field in mid-October. Or we can accept reality, speculating, for instance, on how many tens of thousands of person-hours will be spent in traffic on the Grand Central Parkway approach to Shea Stadium in mid-October, etc.
gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) (07/20/85)
-- > On Wednesday's pay-cablecast of the Mets-Reds game, Met announcers > Ralph Kiner and Fran Healy began discussing team winning and losing > streaks. The Cubs' recent 13-game skid came up in the conversation. > Kiner then claimed that since 1900, 71 teams have had losing streaks > of 13 or more games in a season, and NOT ONE of them won the > division title or pennant in the season of their losing streak. The Cubs' collapse got me wondering--what is the major league record losing streak? The record winning streak? -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 20 Jul 85 [2 Thermidor An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***