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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Found the Broom
Message-ID: <257@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 08:53:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: fisher.257
Posted: Thu Aug  9 08:53:31 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 01:10:26 EDT
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics
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I'd say it's rather early for the broom.

The Mets are 4.5 games out. In 1969, the Cubs led by 9.5 games on
August 15 or thereabouts, and the Mets won by more than 8 games.

George Will's latest column in Newsweeks is a full page tribute to the
Cubs, in which he says that "the Cubs are William Jennings Bryan, a
prarie uprising against the highfalutin spat-wearing Easterners, the
Mets and the Phillies". The simile may be stronger than most Cub fans
would like; after all, Bryan was pretty famous for some September
fades. And didn't he lose three times (1969, 1973, and ...)?

				David Rubin
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