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Sunday, August 3, 2014

According to probabilities, Boston has flat-lined

I bet you didn't know that the MLB's website includes graph listing the probabilities for each team making the playoffs.

Well, now you do.

I bet you didn't know the Yankees have an 18 percent chance of making the playoffs. (The chart is a bit misleading, because the numbers shown are for two days ago. After yesterday's win, we stand at an 18 percent chance.)

Well, now you do.

I bet you don't know what in hell an 18 percent chance of making the playoffs means.

I sure as hell don't.

But Boston has a ZERO percent chance, and they are flat-lining. We are playing a statistically dead - and an emotionally dead - team. We damn well better win.

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