misterirrelevant.com - 8/27/2007
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Not much time this morning, so here’s a quartet of deserving videos. First up, from 1984, it’s Harry Caray and Steve Stone celebrating the first Cubs playoff birth in 39 years with a can of Budweiser and a cheap cigar.
After the jump, three more clips of interest …
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Most Similar NL Teams
greenmen.org 8/27/2007 — Continuing my infatuation with park-adjusted team data, I decided to create similarity scores that compare each NL team’s offense and defense to the others’. The graph below plots each team’s OPS+ on the x-axis and ERA+ on the ...
The Reds - cherry or strawberry flavored Kool Aid?
baseballchurch.blogspot.com 8/27/2007 — Holy cow, Cubs, here we come... So a lot of us in the Fandom of Redsland have secretly begun to scoreboard watch. I know, I know, non-Reds fans think the team is still teh suck because of how they played during the first half of the year under Jerry ...
Watch out...The Reds are in contention
construda.blogspot.com 8/27/2007 — The Cincinnati Reds, once the worst team in MLB, have ran off six in a row and are only 6.5 games behind in the paltry NL Central. What does this mean? Means in somewhat of a likelihood, the Reds can still make a play towards the NLDS. The Brewers are falling fast and the Cards and Cubs are the only major threat to the Reds.
