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Offline JCA-CrystalCity

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #75: April 15, 2022, 09:51:55 PM »

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #76: April 15, 2022, 09:52:25 PM »
Fedde is a pleasant surprise this season so far.

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #77: April 15, 2022, 09:54:32 PM »
If Atlanta loses, we’re in second place. Whoda thunk it

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #78: April 15, 2022, 09:54:54 PM »
Fedde is a pleasant surprise this season so far.
he has a limited job. Go 5 and don't get blown out.  He can do that.

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #79: April 15, 2022, 09:56:05 PM »
Relative to my expectations,.500 is great

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #80: April 15, 2022, 09:58:31 PM »
miss Mitlen

First thing I thought when I read that.

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #81: April 16, 2022, 12:25:01 AM »
THE RACING PRECEDENTS - Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their fourth win, each season:

2018 - 2nd April (4th match of season)
2013 - 6th April (5th match)
2014 - 6th April (6th match)
2019 - 7th April (8th match)
2017 - 10th April (7th match)
2011 - 10th April (9th match)
2016 - 11th April (5th match)
2012 - 11th April (6th match)
2005 - 12th April (8th match)
2008 - 13th April (13th match)
2010 - 15th April (9th match)
2022 - 15th April (9th match)
2015 - 16th April (10th match)
2021 - 16th April (11th match)
2006 - 16th April (13th match)
2007 - 16th April (13th match)
2009 - 26th April (17th match)
2020 - 4th August (8th match)

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #82: April 16, 2022, 01:29:07 AM »
It's still early, but if we sort it by record rather than calendar date, the current club seems mired in mediocrity, neither excelling nor tanking. Of course, that cluster of mediocrity includes both last year's sell-at-the-deadline team and the 2019 WS champions, so I suppose it really doesn't tell us anything at this point.

I added the final records as well; as you can see, most of the mediocre teams remained mediocre, while the wheels came off the 2010 and 2021 teams and the 2019 team famously turned it around. The other outlier is the 2018 club, which was 11 games over .500 in early June, and then collapsed to the .500 team it became for the rest of the season.

2018 - 2nd April (4th match)   4-0 (82-80)
2013 - 6th April (5th match)   4-1 (86-76)
2016 - 11th April (5th match)   4-1 (95-67)
2012 - 11th April (6th match)   4-2 (98-64)
2014 - 6th April (6th match)   4-2 (96-66)
2017 - 10th April (7th match)   4-3 (97-65)

2005 - 12th April (8th match)   4-4 (81-81)
2019 - 7th April (8th match)   4-4 (93-69)
2020 - 4th August (8th match)   4-4 (26-34)
2010 - 15th April (9th match)   4-5 (69-93)
2011 - 10th April (9th match)   4-5 (80-81)
2022 - 15th April (9th match)   4-5
2015 - 16th April (10th match)   4-6 (83-79)
2021 - 16th April (11th match)   4-7 (65-97)

2006 - 16th April (13th match)   4-9 (71-91)
2007 - 16th April (13th match)   4-9 (73-89)
2008 - 13th April (13th match)   4-9 (59-102)
2009 - 26th April (17th match)   4-13 (59-103)

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #83: April 16, 2022, 05:23:46 AM »
Four down - 59 to go... ;)

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #84: April 16, 2022, 11:02:27 AM »
A record like 2011 would be better than most predicted

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Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #86: April 16, 2022, 12:04:22 PM »
Where’d he go?
he's well.  VaRK keeps in touch with  him.  Back in March 2020 he stopped posting.  May have been my fault.  We had a bad exchange in uncensored discussing the early situation of a cruise ship being held off shore with COVID patients. I never quite could find the right way to apologize to him, I think.  After he held off posting, I assume he figured out how to live without being on-line here. Oh, I also think I po'd Spider last summer with a moderating call (pulled a political trolling post in a GDT). So, losing those two killed the GDTs.  But, on the bright side, they are well and that is what counts.