MLB 2025: The Dodgers vs The Field

[state of hockey]

Twins push the streak to 11, but both Buxton and Correa go into concussion protocol after colliding.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Twins push the streak to 11, but both Buxton and Correa go into concussion protocol after colliding.

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Just came here to post same lol

 

[Kepler]

Rockies now own the worst start in the modern era.

They actually have a worse start than the ‘99 Spiders by a game.

Didn't that team go like 3-50 down the stretch though, after they ran outta money and all their players left?

Or maybe there was skullduggery and the owner had another team and moved all the players there and deliberately bankrupted the Spiders? I recall it was something unsavory.

Edit: here:

In 1899, the Spiders' owners, the Robison brothers, bought the St. Louis Browns out of bankruptcy and changed their name to the Perfectos. However, they kept the Spiders as well—a blatant conflict of interest. Believing the Perfectos would draw greater attendance in more densely populated St. Louis, the Robisons transferred most of the Cleveland stars, including future Baseball Hall of Famers Cy Young, Jesse Burkett, and Bobby Wallace, to St. Louis. They also shifted a large number of Cleveland home games to the road (for instance, the original Opening Day game was shifted to St. Louis).

With a decimated roster, the Spiders made a wretched showing. They finished with a dismal win-loss record of 20–134 (.130), the worst in MLB history, 84 games behind the pennant-winning Brooklyn Superbas and 35 games behind the next-to-last (11th) place Washington Senators. Their batting records were the worst in the league in runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, walks, stolen bases, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Spiders#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a>

The Robisons announced after buying the Perfectos that they intended to run the Spiders as a "sideshow", and Cleveland fans apparently took them at their word. The Spiders' first 16 home games drew a total of 3,179 fans, or an average of 199 fans per game. Due to these meager attendance figures, the other 11 NL teams refused to come to League Park, as their cut of the revenue from ticket sales did not even begin to cover their hotel and travel expenses. The Spiders were thus forced to play 85 of their remaining 93 games on the road. Counting the large number of home games that had been shifted to the road earlier in the season, they only played 42 home games during the season, including only eight after July 1, and finished 9–33 (.214) at home and 11–101 (.098) on the road. Only 6,088 fans paid to attend Spiders home games in 1899, for a pitiful average of a mere 145 spectators per game in 9,000-seat League Park.

The 101 road losses is a major-league record that will never be threatened, as current scheduling practices have teams play a maximum of 81 away games. The team's longest winning streak of the season was two games, which they accomplished once: on May 20–21. Spiders opponents scored ten or more runs 49 times in 154 games. Pitchers Jim Hughey (4–30) and Charlie Knepper (4–22) tied for the team lead in wins.

 

[WeAreNDHockey]

Didn't that team go like 3-50 down the stretch though, after they ran outta money and all their players left?

Or maybe there was skullduggery and the owner had another team and moved all the players there and deliberately bankrupted the Spiders? I recall it was something unsavory.

1 and 40 in their last 41 games.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

Didn't that team go like 3-50 down the stretch though, after they ran outta money and all their players left?

Or maybe there was skullduggery and the owner had another team and moved all the players there and deliberately bankrupted the Spiders? I recall it was something unsavory.

Edit: here:

Yeah, they really shouldn’t count in any of the worst team arguments because they were what would happen if Major League was real life. Full on corruption. White Sox and Rockies may not necessarily be trying to win a WS, but they aren’t going to become a farm team for someone else midseason.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Well fuck