Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Misery Truly Loves Company: An Introduction
Welcome to Race to the Bottom. While most people actually prefer to watch and think about winning baseball teams, we here at RttB far prefer to follow the three-way race for the title of Worst Team in Baseball that's currently going on. When the 1962 Mets cruised to their 120 losses, they had no rivals. When the 2003 Detroit Tigers stopped one game short of equaling the Mets' pathetic record, the Tigers' closest rival, if you will, won 23 more games than they did.
While we're sure that there have been three equally bad teams vying for the bottom at once before, we're not sure there have ever been three equally bad teams that are this bad. Could any of these three 2006 teams—the Chicago Cubs, the Kansas City Royals, and the Pittsburgh Pirates—outdo the 1962 Mets? It probably won't come to that. But we could have three teams with 100+ losses and maybe not quite 60 wins. This is their story: the other race to 60.
While we're sure that there have been three equally bad teams vying for the bottom at once before, we're not sure there have ever been three equally bad teams that are this bad. Could any of these three 2006 teams—the Chicago Cubs, the Kansas City Royals, and the Pittsburgh Pirates—outdo the 1962 Mets? It probably won't come to that. But we could have three teams with 100+ losses and maybe not quite 60 wins. This is their story: the other race to 60.
