June 03, 2004

what the hell are either of these two articles trying to say? the first one goes a little overboard. i don't know what type of standings one would expect after 60 games, but the way it stands now, i'm not all that suprised by what's going on in the standings, sans reds. the second one has the usual comparisions to the NFL and others, while not making much of any point regarding parity. anyone who's really been following baseball knows both the AL & NL west divisions were up for grabs. is anyone really suprised that san diego is in front of a totally depleted giants and snakes? or that anaheim is running ahead of the a's while the rangers are returning to their norm? the AL central was wide open before the season....is it really suprising to see the chisox ahead of the twins? or that the cubs injured arms have cost them thus far? who'd a thought that the marlins would be ahead of the phills in the NL east? i think it's all much ado about nothing. the bottom line is that both the yanks and red sox have two of the best records in the bigs and they are *not* even hitting on all cylinders yet due to injuries and slow starts. there's still a 100 games left. as much as i'd like to believe there's actual parity in MLB instead of the rich winning everything, i think the answer is somewhere in the middle. it's a screwed up system where the world champion marlins are collecting 8 digit revenue sharing checks from the team they beat in the series last year.

posted by oliver_crunk at 02:37 PM on June 03, 2004

Oliver: I'm not really sure what exactly they are trying to say except that the former thinks that the wild spending Yanks and Sox have improved baseball, while the latter thinks that the wild spending Yanks and Sox have ruined baseball. I think. I just thought it was kinda funny when I ran a Google search on parity and this is what came up: News results for parity - View today's top stories MLB's sudden parity means summer thrills - MSNBC - Jun 2, 2004 Parity in baseball? Let's forget about it - Toronto Star - Jun 1, 2004

posted by NoMich at 02:48 PM on June 03, 2004

I just saw a post on one of the medium-sized baseball sites yesterday where you could simulate a 50 game season you mean this? (via baseball musings)

posted by goddam at 10:49 PM on June 03, 2004