{"id":54,"date":"2007-11-10T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/54"},"modified":"2009-10-09T02:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T06:39:23","slug":"greatest-comeback-ever-or-7-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/54","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Comeback Ever? (or: 7-50)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m well aware that I haven’t posted in a while, and this isn’t really a “real” post anyway. The holiday season is hitting full stride and people have been crazy at work and at home. It’s a three-day weekend, but Em will be spending most all of it in Sacramento as the powerful at the capital try to play “Deal or No Deal”.<\/p>\n

So hopefully I’ll have some time to update various parts of the webpage, catch up with my life, and maybe even do something meaningful.<\/p>\n

But not yet.<\/p>\n

Saturday mornings are some of my biggest video game times, when the whole world of possibility with free time unfolds and I can just let my mind go and relax a little. And of course I can’t stop playing MVP 2005, despite my aforementioned<\/a> growing hatred of its hardest difficulty level.<\/p>\n

So I’ve decided, in the 2007 season, to attempt the greatest comeback in the history of baseball. Rather than languishing on my 20-win pace for the season, I’m switching back to All-Star difficulty for the last 105 games of the season. The goal is to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Here’s a testimony to my abysmal performance so far:
\n7-50 (.123) record
\n28.5 GB (Angels) in the AL West
\n26.0 GB (A’s) in the AL Wild Card
\n112-363 (-251) Run Differential
\n2-27 Home, 5-23 Road
\n.188 BA, 6.18 ERA
\n3-16 vs. West, 0-18 vs. Central, 4-15 vs. East, 0-1 Interleague
\n35 HR, 54 SB<\/p>\n

And Ichiro is hitting under .200.<\/p>\n

Can this band of scrappy Mariners, defending champions for the past two seasons (who broke their own AL record for wins with 117 in 2005) add to their accomplishments with the greatest seasonal turn-around in the history of sports?<\/p>\n

Stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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