Secrets of the AL Central X - Bland as We Wanna Be

by royalsreview on Aug 17, 2009 12:48 PM EDT in News Comment 8 comments

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Here's what the five teams of the AL Central have done since the end of May:

White Sox: 36-33
Tigers: 34-34
Twins: 31-34
Indians: 29-36
Royals: 23-44

Is "boat race" the best term, or does that imply too much excitement?
Quite the surge by the White Sox, who have managed to play .522 ball for two and a half months. In the Central, that's enough to turn heads. If someone can play .540 baseball for two months or more, they should have epic poems written about them.
No, I did not cherry-pick this date to highlight how bad the Royals have been. By the end of May the Royals were already 23-27. If I had chosen the infamous 18-11 date, things would have been much worse.

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Just hammers home how bad the Royals are

They are getting completely creamed despite being in a very very poor division.

by kcbottom9th on Aug 17, 2009 1:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Contract The Division?

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Aug 17, 2009 1:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

No, Expand the Divisions, NBA/NHL-style

AL Southwest Division:
Anaheim
Texas

AL Northwest Division
Minnesota
Seattle

AL Shared History Division:
Kansas City
Oakland

AL Central Division:
Chicago
Cleveland

AL International Division:
Detroit
Toronto

AL Southeast Division:
Baltimore
Tampa Bay

AL East
Boston
New York

8-team playoff (7 division champs + 1 wild card).

by Gopherballs on Aug 17, 2009 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Modify this to include a Shared History wild card ever year, and playoffs here we come!!!

Extremis malis extrema Soria.

by 2X2L on Aug 17, 2009 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Shared History Wild Card!

by royalsreview on Aug 17, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Due to pressure from MLB's broadcast partners

the Office of the Commissioner has adopted the AL East Wild Card.

by Gopherballs on Aug 17, 2009 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hilarious, but surely you knew somebody would do this research:

Realistically, I limited this up going back to 1998, because that was the first year TB existed.

Using the divisions above, Royals would have qualified for the playoffs only one-half of a season out of 12, assuming they don’t catch Oakland this year. Only “good” result would have been last year, when both teams finished 75-87, thus requiring a one game playoff. (I’m sure we would have won it. NOT)

By the way, on AVERAGE, we would have finished 20 games out of first each year! In five of the years, we would have finished 31 or more games out.

Mr Glass, this is a pro sports team, not a retail store - run it like one!

by loyal2sdad on Aug 17, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow

Sox only went up two games and are in the race. I wonder if the Sox were in the AL East, they would be a lot worse off. The Royalsm can turn it around. It would be interesting to see the Byrce Harper race since the draft or somthing.

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by The_Fan on Aug 17, 2009 5:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs