May 29, 2008
Even Stevens
Bleed Cubbie Blue notes that after the Cubs sweep, the Dodgers and Cubs are .500 over 118 years, 1010-1010.
I thought about this and these two franchises have traded periods of dominance. When the Cubs were a great team in the early years of the 20th Century, the Dodgers were horrid. When the Dodgers were winning ten pennants in the 20 years from 1947-66, the Cubs were awful.
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That's unbelieveable. What are the odds that two teams could play each other 2,020 times and split the games exactly!
The Cubs announcers mentioned the incredible tie at the end of the WGN broadcast. An odd quirk, but these things happen. According to baseball-reference.com, this season the majors have scored exactly 7,200 runs through last night in exactly 800 games. You can probably figure out the runs per game without a calculator.
Then if they split the next 2 games it'll happen again.
"...all right, then, best 1011 out of 2021."
Actually, the odds of it happening at exactly 2020 are pretty slim, of course (2008 would have been a better coincidence), but it is inevitable that it will happen at some large number as one team fades and the other surges, and then over and over again as the cycle repeats itself into perpetuity.