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Courtesy of this week's Lazy Sunday over at The Diatribe, a little calendar that compares how far along in the season we are. The most discouraging analogy is to last year's Tribe; at this point last year, they were 19-19. And that was one of the most frustrating Tribe teams I can remember.

But the one that sticks out for me, probably because I'm a runner, is the marathon comparison. We're less than 6.2 miles into a 26.2 mile race. That's NOTHING. If you blaze out to a fast opening 6, it doesn't mean anything. If you start out slowly, you still have 20 miles to make a great race.

Where it starts to fall apart, though, is if you start too slowly, you just can't pace up enough. If you run 6 10:00 miles, then you've got to run 6:26s the rest of the way to qualify for Boston. It'd be a lot easier just to run 7:15s the whole way, but it can be done.

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Last years team didn’t really fall off the cliff early June. I believe they posted an 11-21 record shortly after this time of the year (including that soul crushing 11 game losing streak mostly against division foes).

by Toxicadam on May 17, 2009 1:03 PM EDT reply actions  

So your saying this year’s team can be as good as last years team….. yes!

by hans on May 17, 2009 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

Interesting website. The comparison to last year’s record is really depressing.

The other comparisons are interesting, and are a little hopeful. I’ve run a couple of marathons and see some similarities, especially the similarity of hitting the wall around 18 miles and baseball where the heat and exhaustion hit players around August. The difference between a marathon and a baseball season is that successful runners (i.e., not me) have to pace themselves where in baseball you try hard to score as many runs every game.

If you believe it's just a game, you're also probably wondering why Santa keeps skipping your house every year.

by LeftyCatcher on May 18, 2009 9:11 AM EDT reply actions  

The other difference between a marathon and a baseball season is that running sucks and baseball doesn’t.

by Buckeye Brad on May 18, 2009 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sometimes baseball does.

I become an expert simply by doing something.

by Brad D on May 18, 2009 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

Running only sucks when you don’t do it.

by peter m on May 18, 2009 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ha, nice

I'm *always* in the driver's seat, cugino -- Chuck

by Turkmenbashi on May 18, 2009 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

Touche’. But the agony of a marathon is over in 2-4 hours…the agony of a bad baseball season lasts 6 months.

If you believe it's just a game, you're also probably wondering why Santa keeps skipping your house every year.

by LeftyCatcher on May 18, 2009 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

The problem with the marathon analogy is that we aren’t exactly running a nice relaxed, controlled pace right now. We twisted our ankle, lost ground, and are now in some sort of frenetic death sprint at mile 7.

by APV on May 18, 2009 9:45 AM EDT reply actions  

Don’t forget the repeated amount of nut punches we have taken along the way.

by Toxicadam on May 18, 2009 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

Is that some sort of drink they hand out at marathons? I’ll have a nut punch, please.

by odradek on May 18, 2009 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Eureka! That explains all those runners doubled over at the end of marathons!

by peter m on May 18, 2009 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

You’ve just identified the official drink of the 2009 Indians! Nut Punch!

If you believe it's just a game, you're also probably wondering why Santa keeps skipping your house every year.

by LeftyCatcher on May 18, 2009 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

According to BPro, we still have an 11% chance of making the playoffs. So there’s that.

I become an expert simply by doing something.

by Brad D on May 18, 2009 12:15 PM EDT reply actions  

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