You Could Look It Up: The Best-Worst Blue Jays versus the Best-Worst Pirates by Steven Goldman

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Does the search for the best fourth-place team of the divisional era have rival claimants for the title? [link]

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The Moral Victories Keep Rolling in
Published 10/10/2008 by Lloyd the Barber (noreply@blogger.com) at Ghostrunner on First
... Anyone with a brain knows that dismissing the Jays as a "fourth place team" is dumber a concussed Hills castmember. It is so dumb in fact, that the good people at Baseball Prospectus are currently using the 2008 Blue Jays a measuring stick. The Best-Worst team in the divisional age! World famous Joe Sheehan had this to say about the 2008 Jays when another BP writer suggested the Jays were perhaps the best 4th place team in the Wild Card age: ...

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