I’ve got a couple post ideas in the hopper, but I just switched jobs, so I have to pretend to do work for at least a week or two.\u00a0 But, I can throw out a couple ridiculous stats that I heard recently.<\/p>\n
1). The Lakers, in the Kobe Era,\u00a0are 54-6 when Mr. Bryant takes fewer than 24 shots in a game.<\/strong>\u00a0 FIFTY-FOUR AND SIX!\u00a0 Stop shooting so much, Kobe.\u00a0 I have no number to back it up, but I’d be willing to bet that Michael Jordan’s teams were better when he shot more.<\/p>\n 2). Sterling Hitchcock faced four consecutive Cy Young winners for the Padres in the 1998 playoffs.<\/strong>\u00a0 What actually makes this impressive is that he went 3-0 in those starts and the only no-decision is in which he pitched innings and only allowed 1 run, but Trevor Hoffman gave up a 3-run home run to Scott Brosius in the 8th to blow Hitchcock’s fourth straight win over a Cy Young winner.\u00a0 I was 19-years old in 1998, watching these playoffs and it was only 11 years ago, so you’d think that I would remember anything <\/em>about Sterling Hitchcock, but I don’t.\u00a0 Does anyone remember that he won the MVP of the NLCS that year?\u00a0 I sure didn’t.\u00a0 Yes, Sterling Hitchcock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve got a couple post ideas in the hopper, but I just switched jobs, so I have to pretend to do work for at least a week or two.\u00a0 But, I can throw out a couple ridiculous stats that I … Continue reading