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April 06, 2007
A History Of 0-3 Starts
Texas has begun a season with three consecutive losses four times. What happened next?
Year |
Start |
Rest of April |
Final Record |
1973 |
0-3 |
6-7 |
57-105 |
1985 |
0-3 |
7-9 |
62-99 |
1991 |
0-3 |
8-5 |
85-77 |
2002 |
0-3 |
10-12 |
72-90 |
Only the ’91 team finished with a winning record. That was the crazy year in which Texas won 14 straight, then lost 11 of 12, then won seven straight.
The other teams were terrible, of course. However, it’s worth noting that those teams were also lousy the previous year. The ’72 team lost 100 games, the ’84 club lost 92, and the ’01 edition had lost 89. The 2007 Rangers aren’t nearly as bad as any of those teams.
Incidentally, I’m glad I’m not a paid opinion columnist who has to write about the Rangers’ opening games on a daily basis. Being just the occasional blogger, I can lay low for a few days while others offer sub-headlines like “Fans running out of reasons to believe” on the 6th of April.
That said, if the season really does fall off a cliff, a weekly cat picture may not suffice. I’ll have to turn the Rundown into Cute Overload, only with more drink recipes.
Posted by Lucas at April 6, 2007 12:44 PM