All right, that’s three months in a row. It looks like the Penguins came to play this year, so we’re gonna have to keep an eye on the opposition teams and think about a playoff run.
For June, the chillybirds were a blistering 22-6 (.786), melting the ice caps that had formed around them during last season’s Ice Age. We lead the leagues, combined, by 9 games, and our nearest division opponent by 12 games.
The famous Pessimistic Statistical Forecast Model projects us out to 103 wins.
Naturally as a pre-All Star model, that has a
huge margin of error at this point. But the sports writers have perked up and begun to take notice, and the Cajun Crew baseball fans are flocking to the Gulf Igloo to watch us play.
The Flipper Pitching Crew is unparalleled so far this year. 1st place in every category. Moose and Dizzy Dean have been duking it out to decide which will wear the “Ace” hat at contract time. (11-2, 9-3) But Dean has more CG and SHO and has started one less game, you could make a good case for either.
The fans are picking Moose to start the All Star game, so far. He has indeed been a consistency machine, as per his credentials. Dean is polling in at fifth.
Greinke is watching both and reminding everyone that he’s got the most seasons in a tuxedo and has been solid every single season. Sain and Palmer are pointing at their records and wondering why the press keeps writing them off as “those other guys.”
The hitters:
Barry Bonds is pulling away from the pack, tied for the league-leading 4.0 WAR. Lou Brock is 4th in RBI, tied for 3rd in Runs, etc. etc.
Unless there’s a sudden voting collapse, both are slated to start the ASG.
Yount shows up on the leaderboards for SLG and ISO, if he picks his average up, we’re probably looking at a slugger award.
We are not quite leading the league in every offensive category (playing in the Igloo we never will lead in dingers.) But the run differential is +186 in 81 games, so we’re outscoring the opponents by about 2.2 runs per game.
Makes the pitchers happy, makes the fans happy, makes the owner and GM happy.
Keep it up, fellas. Kippers for everyone.