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This one goes to 19 -- Sat, Aug 20 2005 10:15PM

The Royals ended their 19-game streak of futility tonight with a 2-1 victory against Oakland (and Barry Zito, no less). If they had managed 2 more losses, they would have matched Baltimore's record of 21-straight (the first 21 games of the 1988 season).

I was hoping for 22-straight to remove that distinction from my team's record, but I really should know better by now. But they could still acheive new levels of futility...If they manage to lose the rest of their road games this season they'll surpass the Philadelphia A's 1916 record of 64 road losses; if they manage to finish the season going 3-38 they'll lose 120, topping(?) the AL mark set by Detroit in 2003 and tie the mark set by the Amazin's in 1962. However they finish the season, they seem likely to lose more than the 105 games they lost last year.

Meanwhile...wouldn't it be interesting if the ChiSox continue their free-fall and found themselves in a wild card race instead of running away with the division?

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even if the royals had made it to 22 games, the o's wouldn't be off the hook. you said it yourself- they'd continue to have the longest losing streak *to begin a season* in baseball history. so even if the roayls lost 30 straight, whenever a team would start the year 0-5, 0-6, or even 0-10, you'd hear about the '88 o's on sportscenter, and not the '05 royals. !-)

and i like how in a post about losing and futility, one of the google ads to the right is for "yankees choke t-shirts." that makes baby jesus happy. !-)

- aham, Sun, Aug 21 2005 09:36AM

and i like how in a post about losing and futility, one of the google ads to the right is for "yankees choke t-shirts."

and of course, once i post that, the ads change.

- aham, Sun, Aug 21 2005 09:37AM

they'd continue to have the longest losing streak *to begin a season* in baseball history

Details, details :-P

And the ads now are for Red Sox memorabilia..maybe igophoto is trying to make some sort of prediction?

- Snee, Sun, Aug 21 2005 10:17AM

Ya know, if Randy Johnson wouldn't throw 4 flat sliders in one inning, the White Sox free fall would've kept on going. Not that I'm bitter or anything about all of the driving to see the loss. <shameless self-promotion> Check out my Chicago Road Trip album for more </ss-p>

- EhSteve, Mon, Aug 22 2005 07:57PM

Hey, Randy was really messed up that morning. By morning I mean the 10 minute period before a game where he wakes up, throws whatever random woman out of his room and takes a little coke to ease the pain. He probably had to talk to his wife or kids the day before and we know how much he hates that.

The point is that if your life was a consisted solely of gambling, drugs and acts of infidelity, which seemlessly coalesced into a continuum of debauchery, you wouldn't be able to pitch either.

- crazy1armman, Tue, Aug 23 2005 07:19AM

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