As you mentioned, we had a 19-9 June, but that doesn't tell the full story. We lost 3 to Stone Island, 4 to the Soniqs and 2 of 3 to USC. In other words, we were 1-9 vs whales and 18-0 vs the rest. For the season, we're 0-9 vs Stone Island and 2-7 vs the Soniqs (so 20 more games to go vs those two!). Hmm... I wonder if this division from hell is affecting our performance much?
The Warbirds won their season series against us, 5-1. We've still got 4 coming up vs Huntley. For this past month, we did manage to take 2 of 3 from the Cardinals, so that's one whale we had some good luck with. Speaking of records vs whales/mini-whales (rather subjective, obviously), here's how the 3 of us are faring (as of July 4):
vs Whales (Is there a 5 win limit?):
Red Raiders 5-9 .357
Warbirds 5-17 .227
Raccoons 5-19 .208
vs Mini-Whales:
Warbirds: 5-1 (that's vs us!) .833
Red Raiders: 14-5 .737
Raccoons: 8-11 .421
Total vs strong teams:
Red Raiders: 19-14 .576
Warbirds: 10-18 .357
Raccoons: 13-30 .302
Whales: LOLCats, Cardinals, Trojans, Stone Island, Soniqs
Mini-whales: the 3 of us, Deifel, Twins, Asbury
So vs all non-whales:
Warbirds: 45-13 .776
Red Raiders: 48-20 .706
Raccoons: 38-19 .667
Clearly, we've been abysmal against strong teams which is not how things had been in recent seasons, so I'm rather disappointed there. But at least we're faring better than Asbury who's 34-45. Their perfect Young is 2-9 4.37, 100 Johnson 7-11 5.33, Walsh 7-7 4.87, 100 Pedro 4-5 5.91. Only Hoyt is doing somewhat well at 7-6 3.92. Brutal division!
If only we'd have ended up in the NC West... Oh well, it won't be the 1st time we didn't make the playoffs. It would take a miracle to catch the Warbirds and catching the Soniqs... Just not possible.
I'll be rooting for you two in the playoffs. So come on and show those whales who's the boss!
