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MLB tweets out playoff odds, and one team's chances sit at 0.0 percent (yahoo.com)
MLB's spring training is just around the corner, and that means the season of projections and playoff odds is upon us.
One of those sets of numbers arrived on Tuesday via Fangraphs, and the results were what you would expect, give or take a few spots in a division race. The Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and San Diego Padres are near locks to play October baseball. Less so with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies and Baltimore Orioles.
Things got interesting, however, when MLB tweeted out the odds to its 8.7 million Twitter followers, creating perhaps the first-ever instance of a league basically telling its fans that one of its teams has zero shot of making the playoffs.
In this case, it was the Orioles sitting with the full Blutarsky from Animal House: "Zero point zero."
Gee thanks MLB, LOL.
MLB's spring training is just around the corner, and that means the season of projections and playoff odds is upon us.
One of those sets of numbers arrived on Tuesday via Fangraphs, and the results were what you would expect, give or take a few spots in a division race. The Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and San Diego Padres are near locks to play October baseball. Less so with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies and Baltimore Orioles.
Things got interesting, however, when MLB tweeted out the odds to its 8.7 million Twitter followers, creating perhaps the first-ever instance of a league basically telling its fans that one of its teams has zero shot of making the playoffs.
In this case, it was the Orioles sitting with the full Blutarsky from Animal House: "Zero point zero."
Gee thanks MLB, LOL.