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season in review ’
With an 80-82 record the Florida Marlins finished in third place in the National League East. Sure this might be everyone's favorite team to hate, with the worst owner but on the field they are not that ...
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With a 97-65 record the Philadelphia Phillies won the National League East. They would go on to lose the NLCS to the San Francisco Giants in six games. However this is a very good baseball team who ...
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With a 66-96 record the Baltimore Orioles finished in last place in the American League East. They spent no days in first place, and at their worst they were 36 games behind the divisional lead. They were ...
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With an 85-77 record the Toronto Blue Jays finished 4th in the American League East. Think about that that is almost a good enough record to win a division in today's MLB, and the Blue Jays come ...
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With a 96-66 record the Tampa Bay Rays won the American League East. They spent a total of 86 days in first place, and built a high six game lead. They did so by going 43-30 against ...
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With an 89-73 record the Boston Red Sox finished third in the American League East. If it were not for the other teams in the AL, and a 13-5 Inter League record the Red Sox would have ...
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With a 95-67 record the New York Yankees finished second in the American League East, and advanced as far as the ALCS before losing to the Texas Rangers in six games. Things may look all rosy from ...
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With a record of 81-81 the Oakland A's finished 2nd in the American League West. It is easy to see how they did so with a 30-25 record against their divisional opponents, some strong starting pitching, and ...
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With an 80-82 record, the Los Angeles Angels finished third in the American League West. At the start of the season they seemed to be on track to win a division title. They went 44-36 through the ...
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What can we say about the 2010 American League Champions? They spent 136 days in first place, won their division after building an 11 game lead through the fall, but really kind of struggled through the season. ...
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The 2010 Kansas City Royals never spent a day in first place, worse than that they never spent one day of the 2010 season with a better than .500 record. They ended up finishing last in the ...
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Another tough year for Cleveland Indians fans. Overall they wound up 69-93 and finished fourth in the American League Central. They never spent a day in first place, and wound up 25 games behind the division winning ...
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At 88-74 the Chicago White Sox finished second in the American League Central. In all they spent 27 days in first place, and even built up a 3.5 game lead. They got off to a slow start, ...
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The Minnesota Twins had a pretty good year in their new ball park. They won 94 games, won the American League Central division, and made the playoffs. This team spent 127 days in first place, built a ...
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With an 11-5 record it seems that the Green Bay Packers are well on the road to success. However, a wild card round shootout loss to the Arizona Cardinals by the score of 51-45 suggest there is ...
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A 10-6 record and Wild Card Playoff birth would be enough to satisfy most NFL fans, in most NFL cities. However, for the New England Patriots and their fans it is somewhat of an under achievement. This ...
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Oh man do I want to rip the Bengals up and down, but the simple facts here are they had a 10-6 record and made the playoffs and NFL fans in Detroit cannot afford to throw rocks. ...
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Alas we come to the last team that failed to qualify for the 2009 NFL playoffs. The Houston Texans are a tough team to figure out. They seem to be a whole lot better on paper than ...
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The final piece of the 2009 MLB season in review is the World Series Champion New York Yankees. In 2009 they won their 27th World title, opened a brand new stadium, had a steroids controversy, had day ...
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The Colorado Rockies had a very interesting season. They started without Matt Holiday, a key component of their 2007 World Series run, and not knowing who was going to take his place on the team. Through the ...
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The final year of the Minnesota Twins in the Metrodome, in 2010 they will move to an outdoor facility named, Target Field. Some call the Metrodome the baseball park that refused to die, after 162 regular season ...
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After starting 12-17 the Arizona Diamondbacks fired their manger Bob Melvin, while that was probably the right move, their season may have already been lost. In fact since winning 90 games in 2007 this team has seen ...
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