Comments on The Blog of Revelation - by Jim Jividen: 2009 MLB Playoff Predictions

On another note, can somebody tell me why teams fe...

2009-10-13T09:27:37.090-04:00

On another note, can somebody tell me why teams feel the need to have a champagne spraying celebration for winning a Division Series? A pennant, yeah, a division title, sure, but a huge plastic sheeted celebration for winning a quarterfinal matchup?

Do NBA teams go nuts over advancing past the second round? Do NBA teams party like it's 1999 after advancing past the wildcard round

By "results" of course I am referring to wins, as ...

2009-10-10T00:31:12.201-04:00

By "results" of course I am referring to wins, as that is the only stat that really matters. The old blog is no longer available, but I recall you saying something like the Padres were the worst team in the league and that they couldn't (as opposed to "wouldn't, though I could be remembering it wrong) win more than 65 games. So winning 75, and with winning streaks

San Diego was pretty bad; their pythagorean is low...

2009-10-09T09:57:14.227-04:00

San Diego was pretty bad; their pythagorean is lower than their actual win/loss (which at 75-87 still isn't glorious), they gave up 131 more runs than they scored. Unless I'm misreading you, which just struck me, and what you're saying isn't "the Padres played better than forecasted" and instead "the Padres won more games than they should have based on how poorly

Since team chemistry has no bearing on results wha...

2009-10-09T08:27:23.025-04:00

Since team chemistry has no bearing on results whatsoever, to what do you attribute the overachieving seasons of the Mariners and the Padres?