Re: An American View of Cricket (longish)

In rec.sport.baseball Blair P. Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Randy Myers  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In rec.sport.baseball Blair P. Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >> Anyone who wishes to make a wager on tomorrow's game had
> >> better pay attention to a lot more than who won yesterday's,
> >> or they will be betting in ignorance.

> >Just because a team was the best yesterday doesn't mean that
> >team has earned the right to be called the best today.

> But you said the team that won the last game is the best.

The team that won the last game of the year is the best simply
because all the other teams have been eliminated.  And that team
will remain the best until opening day the following season.

> If they aren't the best today, they weren't the best yesterday,
> they were merely the winner.

But winning is how baseball and all other sport determines which
team is the best.  Any other measure of "best" that gives the title
of "best" to the loser is bogus and flies in the face of baseball,
its players and its fans.

> >And yet every stat fan who ever wagered on baseball who was not
> >_lucky_ enough to break even lost his shirt.  Not once, ever,
> >has a stat fan managed to make even a modest profit gambling on
> >baseball.

> I'd like to see the source of that ridiculous statistic.

Oh, well, go on down to Vegas and make your fortune.

Please.

cordially, as always,

rm