I have been troubling myself. I've started this thing (my blog) and now I'm not sure what to illustrate through words. Maybe describe my day? No, no one really cares. Maybe start a novel involving many characters which cause havoc and others fixing the havoc? I'm pretty sure that my purely random mind (some call it A.D.D.) would never allow such a task to be completed. It would be a book that never ended ( like that song in your head now, "it's the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends...."). I could talk about..... you get the idea.
I'm thinking of becoming a baseball fan again. I live in Florida and I like (in general) the American League. I came from Michigan, so last year was pulling for (pause to check a fact on ESPN), scratch that, 2 years ago for the Tigers. My Dad is a BoSox fan so last year I was kinda rooting for them. I think that it's time to establish my rooting interest; (drum roll) it's the Rays. GO RAYS! now I have to buy a hat. That's the goal for the day, buy a Rays hat. It doesn't hurt that they are on top of their division. Maybe they can get to the playoffs this year. The Rays do have to hang in there against the Yankees and Red Sox, but as SportsCenter has told me they are up by 3. This does mean I am rooting for a man named Evan Longoria though, I'm not sure how that makes me feel. It's official, I'm off the fence.
My baseball question is as states; if the Tampa Bay Rays are 64-44 why does everyone say they are 20 games over .500? If you really think about it, they are only 10 games over .500. If you were to take 10 games off of their winning total and add those same 10 games to their loss total they would be .500. I just don't get it. Someone, please set me straight.
I'm thinking of becoming a baseball fan again. I live in Florida and I like (in general) the American League. I came from Michigan, so last year was pulling for (pause to check a fact on ESPN), scratch that, 2 years ago for the Tigers. My Dad is a BoSox fan so last year I was kinda rooting for them. I think that it's time to establish my rooting interest; (drum roll) it's the Rays. GO RAYS! now I have to buy a hat. That's the goal for the day, buy a Rays hat. It doesn't hurt that they are on top of their division. Maybe they can get to the playoffs this year. The Rays do have to hang in there against the Yankees and Red Sox, but as SportsCenter has told me they are up by 3. This does mean I am rooting for a man named Evan Longoria though, I'm not sure how that makes me feel. It's official, I'm off the fence.
My baseball question is as states; if the Tampa Bay Rays are 64-44 why does everyone say they are 20 games over .500? If you really think about it, they are only 10 games over .500. If you were to take 10 games off of their winning total and add those same 10 games to their loss total they would be .500. I just don't get it. Someone, please set me straight.
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Did you buy the hat?
At 64-44 the Rays are 20 games over .500 because they'd need to lose 20 straight games to get back to .500. But your rationale makes sense, too -- but the problem is they actually won the ten games that you'd like to take off their total and add to the loss column. If they'd lost those ten, sure, they'd be at .500, but they didn't -- so there.
Thanks for pointing out my flaws... This is my formal apology to all that held faith in the fact I would buy a hat saluting my new allegiance to the Tampa Bay Rays. I looked, didn't find one that did me and my fandom justice.
I will find one this before the week is out. This is my pledge.
As for your clarification for 20 games over .500, I see your point but that lends itself to the future and "if". Therefore I choose to yell "Balderdash" on that. Every other stat in baseball is to the one thousandth of a percentage point, they could be exact here as well.
phoey on all!
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