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Cleveland Indians (2013 Season)

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Bucklion;2361741; said:
Huh, this is interesting:

Most of the teams that made the WS as a Wild Card had decent records against the teams they faced in the playoffs in the regular season, meaning the appeared to be...good teams. Go figure.

97 Marlins: SF 5-6, Atl 8-4: 13-10, .565
02 Angels: NYY 3-4, MIN 4-5: 7-9, .438
03 Marlins: SF 1-5, CHC 2-4: 3-9, .250
04 Red Sox: LAA 5-4, NYY 11-8: 16-12, .571
05 Astros: ATL 1-5, STL 5-11: 6-16, .273
06 Tigers: NYY 2-5, OAK 5-4: 7-9, .438
07 Rockies: PHI 4-3, AZ 10-8: 14-11, .560
11 Cardinals: PHI 6-3, MIL 9-9: 15-12, .556

Now, let's look at the Indians this year against their 3 likeliest opponents:

DET 3-13, BOS 1-6, TB 2-4: 6-23, .207

As you can see, even if you take the anomalies of the 03 Marlins and the 05 Astros, neither of whom probably should have been in the WS, their winning percentages are still better than the Indians against the 3 likely teams they would face in the playoffs. But you're right, Detroit fans are way more knowledgeable about the chances of the Indians than Indians fans are, because it's not like we follow the team or anything.

"Dumbasses"
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Yea, you're probably right. Since the Indians haven't fared well against teams they could play in the playoffs there's absolutely no reason for you to still have any care to make the playoffs. I mean look, it's statistically improbably for it to happen.....wait wut?!?!? You're to tell me that the '03 Marlins, '05 Astros, and '06 Tigers all made their League Championship Series after beating teams that they were a combined 4-15 (.211) against??? Yea righttttttttttt, that ain't possible. I mean, look at them. They played poorly against them in the regular season! Certaintly they cannot do what all teams do when going on a winning streaks at random points in time: be hot at the right time.

Do you think the '02 Angels or '06 Tigers fans thought they'd made the WS? No. You think the '03 Marlins or '05 Astros thought they would make it to the WS? Hell no.
 
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UpNorth_Buckeye;2361754; said:
Yea, you're probably right. Since the Indians haven't fared well against teams they could play in the playoffs there's absolutely no reason for you to still have any care to make the playoffs. I mean look, it's statistically improbably for it to happen.....wait wut?!?!? You're to tell me that the '03 Marlins, '05 Astros, and '06 Tigers all made their League Championship Series after beating teams that they were a combined 4-15 (.211) against??? Yea righttttttttttt, that ain't possible. I mean, look at them. They played poorly against them in the regular season! Certaintly they cannot do what all teams do when going on a winning streaks at random points in time: be hot at the right time.

Do you think the '02 Angels or '06 Tigers fans thought they'd made the WS? No. You think the '03 Marlins or '05 Astros thought they would make it to the WS? Hell no.
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Way to cherry pick. I guess it's true, you can try and make stats say anything, no matter how ridiculous your picking and choosing what you choose to look at is. As for your last paragraph, I don't speak for fans of other teams...only Detroit fans do that, apparently.
 
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UpNorth_Buckeye;2361754; said:
Yea, you're probably right. Since the Indians haven't fared well against teams they could play in the playoffs there's absolutely no reason for you to still have any care to make the playoffs. I mean look, it's statistically improbably for it to happen.....wait wut?!?!? You're to tell me that the '03 Marlins, '05 Astros, and '06 Tigers all made their League Championship Series after beating teams that they were a combined 4-15 (.211) against??? Yea righttttttttttt, that ain't possible. I mean, look at them. They played poorly against them in the regular season! Certaintly they cannot do what all teams do when going on a winning streaks at random points in time: be hot at the right time.

Do you think the '02 Angels or '06 Tigers fans thought they'd made the WS? No. You think the '03 Marlins or '05 Astros thought they would make it to the WS? Hell no.
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Simple question: have you been following this team at all...this season, or any of the last, oh, 65 years?
 
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UpNorth_Buckeye;2361729; said:
Interesting use of logic. Let me try:

Indians' fans are the complete opposite of Michigan fans. They act like their team sucks every year and they're always right.
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Check out the official Indians threads on Facebook and get back to me.
 
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buckeyemania11;2361787; said:
Free fallin, the turd grows bigger
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Its my fault.

Friend of mine texted me during the first game of the Detroit series (the PEREZ game) and said "I'm enjoying watching the Windians!!!"

I shot back "Yeah, starting tonight they'll probably drop 10 in a row."

Sorry everyone.
 
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