sports.espn.go.com - 5/2/2008
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There have been a lot of losses for the O's, Royals, Pirates, Rays and Nationals over the years. Jonah Keri examines their losing ways. Story
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ESPN: Keri: The failure dynasties
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
ESPN: Keri: The failure dynasties Great stuff from Keri here on Failed Dynasties. Not unlike the valueless flow of...M.Rahmat and The Youth, ROIR cassettes, and my cymbolic Zev photo album! Building a lasting loser, though? That’s a lot easier. The Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates and Tampa Bay Rays are riding streaks of 10 or more losing seasons. Add in the Royals and Expos/Nationals, and those five teams have combined to post 54 losing seasons in 55 tries. Forget failed dynasties. These are the failure dynasties. BALTIMORE ORIOLES Five bad moves 1. Firing Davey ...
Baseball's Failure Dynasties
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May 2, 2008 Baseball's Failure Dynasties : : ESPN's Page 2 analyzes Major League Baseball's current top (bottom?) five long term excersizes in futility. ...
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Oriole Post - Baltimore Orioles Analysis & News; The World of Baseball and Beyond —
Despite the joy we are feeling with the Orioles success in April, most in the media think the gravy train ride may come to a screeching halt. ESPN's Jonah Keri in a piece titled, "The Failure Dynasties", picks the Orioles as one the prime examples of futility in the sport of baseball. Also included in the list are the Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Rays, Pittsburgh Pirates & the Washington Nationals (formerly Expos). In the piece, he goes over some five bad moves each respective franchise made, their lowest moment, horrible staff/players, quotes, and notes for the future. Here's his summary of the franchise as it ...
Pirates vs. Nationals, 3 May 2008
Bucs Dugout —
... Jonah Keri has a new article at ESPN.com about "the failure dynasties." Amazingly, the Pirates aren't the first team on the list, and Keri predicts them to have a winning season in 2010. That looks optimistic to me, if anything, but I'll take it. ...
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