From: Gaurav K Guliani
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 4:39 PM
To: bradley@ahsimc.com
Subject: Re:

did you even watch the games? the white sox went 11-1!, tying the best
postseason record ever since the introduction of the wild card. they
swept the boston red sox and the houston astros. they had 4 complete game
victories in a ROW in the ALCS with 4 different pitchers (which has NEVER
been done). they didn't lose a single road game from the end of
freakin september on. they led their division from opening day to the
playoffs and won the world series, only the 5th wire-to-wire team in major
league baseball history.

you can use the fourier series, the fibonacci sequence and goldbach's
postulate all you want, but there is something to be said about dominant
pitching, clutch hitting and solid defense. if this team had more than
20,000 fans at the beginning of the season and a real star player along
the lines of derek jeter, albert pujols or even steroid monkey bonds, you
would be seeing "Fever Pitch II" at a theatre near you starring john
leguizamo as ozzie guillen. in fact, whether or not they are the luckiest
team, they certainly might be the most underrated world series winner in
the history of baseball, because no one outside of chicago or houston
watched the world series.

(by the way, i can't believe i just defended the white sox...)

On Fri, October 28, 2005 12:58 pm, bradley@ahsimc.com said:
>
> here at work eating lunch...
> i've already seen one article on it, but you'll likely see more...stating
> that the White Sox are the "luckiest team in the history of baseball."
> the basis for saying this is that their actual win total during the
> regular season (99) was 11 (!!) wins more than their "Pythagorean"
> estimate of 88 (nothing to do with triangles or anything, but its a
> predictor of wins based on team runs scored, team runs given up, and other
> factors).
>
> also, i would argue they got extremely lucky by facing the astros and not
> the cardinals, which matched up a lot better against them.
> so why not revel in it? the cubs will win it someday, long after the
> Mariners run off a dynasty of 6 or 7 World Series titles in a row.
> starting next year.
>