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Tuesday Nats Stats: How'd we do?
Well, it's the end of a long, bad season. Just how badly did we do? Back in June, I was seriously trying to figure out if the team was cursed, and we took a look at various measures of "luck." As you may recall, the Nats were both somewhat unlucky and a good bit of terrible. The Nats managed to...
Pythagoras Frowned
Somewhere, about 3.5 clicks under the rainbow, there is a mystical place called Stat Heaven. It is a benevolent paradise ruled by kindly, all-knowing computers, where bloggers find respite from the toil of their mother's basements. It is a place where baseball is color-blind and Barry Bonds hasn't...
Cause for Hope
It's hard to feel good about the Red Sox right now. They've blown two out of three against a very beatable Houston, and have never led in the Rays series. Tonight, they face a likely sweep by the division-leading Rays tonight; a loss would put them 3.5 games behind. I look at this team and I see a...
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