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From: radio@spuxll.UUCP (Rick Farina)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Cubs Eliminated
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 10:25:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 10:25:22 1985
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On Wednesday's pay-cablecast of the Mets-Reds game, Met announcers
Ralph Kiner and Fran Healy began discussing team winning and losing
streaks. The Cubs' recent 13-game skid came up in the conversation.
Kiner then claimed that since 1900, 71 teams have had losing streaks 
of 13 or more games in a season, and NOT ONE of them won the
division title or pennant in the season of their losing streak.

Now, I don't know where Kiner got this tidbit from, but it sounds like
something spit out of the Elias database, so it's probably reliable.

So, the way I see it, we can either choose to ignore history and
continue to speculate on the starting time of games in Wrigley
Field in mid-October.

Or we can accept reality, speculating, for instance, on how many 
tens of thousands of person-hours will be spent in traffic on the 
Grand Central Parkway approach to Shea Stadium in mid-October, etc.