jmh@ltuxa.UUCP (cecw 64lt503310-Jon Mcecw) (09/24/84)
Now that the Cubs have their magic number at 1, where are
all the netnews articles from David Rubin??
Yours in that some of those that do the crowing should eat some,
Jon Hanrath Naperville, IL {ltuxa!jmh}david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) (09/26/84)
[Back by popular demand...]
My silence was due to the conclusion that the Cubs are the best team
in the National League this year. The empirical evidence was
overwhelming and my hope for a Met title turned out to be,
paraphrasing Thomas Huxley, another beautiful theory killed by nasty,
brutish facts.
My congratulations to the Cubs on a truly outstanding season, the only
divisional champion that will have both coped with a serious challenge
AND finished well above .500. I'll be rooting for them in October.
David Rubin
{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david
P.S. Wait till next year!ags@pucc-i (Seaman) (09/27/84)
> My congratulations to the Cubs on a truly outstanding season, the only > divisional champion that will have both coped with a serious challenge > AND finished well above .500. I'll be rooting for them in October. How's that again? The last I looked, the best second-place record in baseball belonged to the Toronto Blue Jays. Who has coped with the most serious challenge? -- [This is my bugkiller line. It may appear to be misplaced, but it works.] Dave Seaman My hovercraft is no longer full of ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags eels (thanks to my confused cat).
david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) (10/01/84)
>> My congratulations to the Cubs on a truly outstanding season, the only >> divisional champion that will have both coped with a serious challenge >> AND finished well above .500. I'll be rooting for them in October. >How's that again? The last I looked, the best second-place record in >baseball belonged to the Toronto Blue Jays. Who has coped with the most >serious challenge? >Dave Seaman My hovercraft is no longer full of >..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags eels (thanks to my confused cat). Detroit suffered no serious pressure during the course of the season. It is games behind, not winning percentage, which determines how much pressure the second place team placed on the first place team. A good indicator would be the date of clinching the division title, which would indicate that the title winners who survived the strongest challenge were, in order, Kansas City, Chicago, San Diego, and Detroit. Besides, though direct comparison on the basis of record alone is unjustified between two teams in different leagues (or even for different divisions in the NL), Dave Seaman is incorrect: the Mets finished 90-72, the Blue Jays 89-73. David Rubin {allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david