Cabrera a cancer?

PhiSlamma — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:19:35 -0000

Just saw this link on ESPN, just basically details the fact that OC is becoming a problem in Chitown.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3415430

thought it was interesting how he goes from super chemistry guy to this. I feel that part of Vlad's slump this year might be attributed to OC not being around anymore. Either way, interesting story.

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This doesn't help me hating ESPN, or the A's.

PhiSlamma — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:39:06 -0000

Although I know most of you may not care about things like power ratings, the easter bunny, santa claus or other things made up by some people, I wanted to address this weeks lovely botching of said rankings.

Check this badboy out if you havent already

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/powerranking

Now, what irks me is about several thousand things. Ill start with the obvious. And Ill just do it in list form to avoid actually bothering with sentence structure.

a) The Angels and the A's have the same record.

b) They are tied in the season series against each other

c) The A's have had an easier schedule, and have played more home games than the Angels. (The Angels have had more games against teams with good winning percentages)

d) The A's team average is far less (.251) than the Angels (.269) and have far less home runs (A's with 20, Halos with 38), Stolen bases (13-32), and Slugging (.358-.419)

e) They have ugly ass uniforms

Sure they have better pitching as of yet, but the Angels are superior in literally every other statistical category. And this is without the Angels two most effective pitchers of yesteryear. Keep in mind, Angels had a one game lead in the AL-West for the vast majority of the last week, which these power ratings were apparently based off of.

Adding to the infuriating nature that is the Angel snubbing/A's loving whoretown that is ESPN, the Angels were actually LOWERED in the ranking from last week from fifth to sixth. This while playing the same ball, having the same record, and playing just as effectively as the first ranked A's.

A shame that they obviously place the utmost importance on run differential on a list that could have been put together better by a two year old with a crayon tied to his hand. Obviously to be a good team you need to win a lot of games, sure. But to be the best team in MLB you need to win by lots of runs when you do win, and when you lose, lose by just one run.

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Cabrera a cancer?

This doesn't help me hating ESPN, or the A's.