Pythagoras says: "Stop Stupid Gambling!"

You guessed it. 

After a staggeringly incompetent, awful, totally bad, rotten, 2-7 "road trip" (one that included playing 3 games in a ballpark just a borough over from their home field), your New York Yankees are STILL far and away the oddsmakers' favorite to win the World Series...at least among American League teams.

It's true: nine games of jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, sheer incompetence allowed the Los Angeles Dodgers, at 19.3 percent, to move (slightly) ahead of all major-league favorites to take the Fall Classic, as they have the last two years.

The Yankees have now fallen to a 16.0 chance to do the same, despite falling to 3-10 in one-run games. Because of course, all sorts of teams that have won just .231 percent of one-run contests have taken the Series in the past...right?

Incredibly, though, the Yanks remain almost 4 times as likely to win as the Tampa Bay Rays (4.2%), a team that now leads them by 4 games in the loss column. The highest other percentages to win it all from the AL are the Cleveland Guardians of Traffic (5.9%) and the Seattle "Dumpless" Mariners (4.1%).

Even amongst NL teams other than the Dodgers, the Milwaukee Brewers (14.3%) and the Atlanta Braves (12.0), with the best record in baseball, trail far behind the Yankees.

The bombing Bombers are also the biggest favorite to win the pennant of either league, at 32.0 percent.

Pythagoras says: "Don't be fooled by people speaking in my name! Gambling is stupid enough! Stop Stupid Gambling!"

This has been a public service announcement.