Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!spuxll!radio From: radio@spuxll.UUCP (Rick Farina) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Cubs Eliminated Message-ID: <680@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 10:25:22 EDT Article-I.D.: spuxll.680 Posted: Thu Jul 11 10:25:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 09:24:49 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 17 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.