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Originally Posted by flambers
LOL, not going to bet you. The fact is in Baseball they play a tonne of games, therefore any team who gets hot can move up the standings very quickly. All it takes is one hot streak (i.e. going 8-2 or 9-1). If the Jays can sweep the Yanks that would be a great start.
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Jays current record is 56-54 110 games into the season. They have 52 games left or 5 stretches of 10 games. If they succeed in pulling off a 9-1 run in one of those and they go 6-4 in the other 4 and split the extra two games that will leave them with a record of 90-72 for the season. Conversely the three teams ahead of them Detroit, New York and Seattle all need to finish the year with a record of 28-24 or worse in order for the Jays to catch them. So not only do the Blue Jays have to get red hot....They need 3 other teams to be just above average, plus the Twins, and the Jays also have to play consistant winning baseball the rest of the time. I don't doubt that the Jays could win 9 of 10 or 8 of 10. But I don't think they can put together the other 40 game stretch to go 24-16 after they go on this tear which would have to start today. And with the score 5-3 Yankees in the 7th....it didn't.