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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Rubin Sandwich
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Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 09:45:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  1 09:45:14 1984
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>>  My congratulations to the Cubs on a truly outstanding season, the only
>>  divisional champion that will have both coped with a serious challenge
>>  AND finished well above .500. I'll be rooting for them in October.

>How's that again?  The last I looked, the best second-place record in
>baseball belonged to the Toronto Blue Jays.  Who has coped with the most
>serious challenge?

>Dave Seaman			My hovercraft is no longer full of 
>..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags		eels (thanks to my confused cat).

Detroit suffered no serious pressure during the course of the season.
It is games behind, not winning percentage, which determines how much
pressure the second place team placed on the first place team. A good
indicator would be the date of clinching the division title, which
would indicate that the title winners who survived the strongest
challenge were, in order, Kansas City, Chicago, San Diego, and
Detroit.

Besides, though direct comparison on the basis of record alone is
unjustified between two teams in different leagues (or even for
different divisions in the NL), Dave Seaman is incorrect: the Mets
finished 90-72, the Blue Jays 89-73.

					David Rubin
			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david