wutka@gitpyr.UUCP (Mark Wutka) (03/12/85)
Why would anybody predict the Atlanta Braves to come in LAST ?!?!?
Come on, Perez is there for the whole season, Horner is back,
Murphy is fine, they lost one reliever but got Sutter, all the
other pitchers are fine. How could anybody predict a team which
was in second place last year with an injured team to come in
LAST place with the same team with the other player all healed ???
Anyway, enough of that. As for that prediction about Toronto coming
in first, I agree for a few reasons. First of all, they have finished
strongly the past two seasons and they actually gave Detroit a chase
for a while. The other reason is a little piece of meaningless trivia.
In the strike-shortened 1981 season, the first place team in each
division was decided by a playoff between the team that was in first
place before the strike and the team that was in first at the end of
the second half. If you will recall, the Yankees ended up in first
by beating the Milwaukee Brewers who had finished first in the second
half. This obviously put Milwaukee in second place. Now, in 1982,
Milwaukee held on to first by beating Baltimore on the last day
of the season. Yes, Baltimore finished second. 1983 - Who came in first ?
Yes, Baltimore ! Now, who came in second ?? Yes, it was Detroit.
Toronto finished in second last season, so maybe....
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Mark Wutka
Office of Computing Services
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Ga.
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