NBA teams that still have a chance to go 0-82:
Detroit Pistons
Washington Wizards
Denver Nuggets
Sacramento Kings
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Monday, November 5th, 2012Continuing the NBA loser update…
Saturday, November 3rd, 2012Still inspired by Lawrence, NBA teams that have a chance to go 0-82:
Toronto Raptors
Boston Celtics
Brooklyn Nets
Detroit Pistons
Washington Wizards
Atlanta Hawks
Denver Nuggets
Los Angeles Lakers
Sacramento Kings
Your (NBA) loser update.
Thursday, November 1st, 2012Inspired by Lawrence, I thought I’d do a quick roundup of NBA teams that still have a chance to go 0-82:
Toronto Raptors
Boston Celtics
Brooklyn Nets
New York Knicks
(Please note that the Knicks-Nets game was postponed due to the weather.)
Detroit Pistons
Milwaukee Bucks
Washington Wizards
Atlanta Hawks
Charlotte Bobcats
Orlando Magic
Denver Nuggets
Minnesota Timberwolves
Oklahoma City Thunder
Phoenix Suns
Los Angeles Lakers
Sacramento Kings
New Orleans Hornets
Memphis Grizzlies
Your loser update: week 6, 2012.
Monday, October 15th, 2012Sorry for the late update, folks. I was away for computers most of the day yesterday.
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
None.
Cleveland’s long nightmare is over. My relatives are happy. And thus endeth the loser update for 2012. (I need to go back through my records, but I don’t recall there being no teams without a win this early in the season.)
Your loser update: week 5, 2012.
Monday, October 8th, 2012NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
I had the Cleveland game going on the background while I puttered around the kitchen and read FARK and Briarpatch
Speaking of playing smarter, I think I’m going to have to add the Chargers to my list of “most consistently overrated teams in the NFL”. Seriously, how do you lose to the Saints, even with the whole Brees record thing?
Your loser update: End of the baseball season.
Thursday, October 4th, 2012The Houston Astros played their last game of the baseball season yesterday.
As you may recall, in 2011, the Astros finished 56-106, for a .346 winning percentage.
This year…it came right down to the wire, but the Astros finished 55-107, losing their last game to the Chicago Cubs, finishing with a .340 winning percentage, and setting a new record for losses in a single season.
Oh, well. There’s always next year; and with the team changing leagues, maybe the 120 loss mark is within reach.
Your loser update: week 4, 2012.
Sunday, September 30th, 2012NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
New Orleans
Houston The Houston Astros is are at 53-106, for a .333 winning percentage. With three games left, they’re not going to lose 110, but they have tied last year’s record number of losses, and it looks like they’re on track to break that record.
Edited to add: Since I am editing this post anyway (thanks, Lawrence) I’ll mention this HouChron article pointing out that you can get tickets for tonight’s game against the Cubs for “as low as 75 cents”. I haven’t checked to see what tickets for other MLB teams are going for on StubHub, which is why I hesitated to do a post.
Edited to add 2: And Lawrence sent me a link to that HouChron article as well, so he gets a hattip, even though I didn’t see his email before I added the ETA.
Your loser update: week 3, 2012.
Monday, September 24th, 2012I really hate to say this, but I’m starting to think Cleveland has a good shot at going 0-16 this year. And they lost to the Bills, which makes it even more painful…
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
New Orleans
The Astros are at 50-103, for a .327 winning percentage. This is projecting out to 109 losses. Put another way, they’d have to win three out of the last nine games, or go .333, to avoid 110 losses.
Some random stuff for the morning of September 20, 2012.
Thursday, September 20th, 2012There hasn’t been much in the news the past couple of days, and I’ve been depressed and upset for various reasons that the readers of this blog won’t care about.
I don’t have a lot to say about the DOJ report on “Fast and Furious”. I haven’t had time to go through the report myself, and I’m expecting that a lot of people who are smarter than I am will have smarter things to say than I do, once they’ve had a chance to go through it.
The Astros have crossed the 100 loss barrier, and are still on track for 110 losses. Woot.
Today’s NYT has two articles I found kind of interesting. One is about problems with the United Network for Organ Sharing and kidney allocation:
Story number two is about the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation in North Dakota:
And:
And the mayor of Central Falls, Rhode Island, resigned yesterday. He’s also agreed to plead guilty on federal charges that “he took illegal gratuities from a friend and political supporter who received lucrative work from the city boarding up abandoned buildings”.
“Some homes were boarded up even though people were still living there.” In completely unrelated news: gee, I really miss Buddy Cianci.
Your loser update: week 2, 2012.
Monday, September 17th, 2012NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
Kansas City
Jacksonville
New Orleans
Tennessee
Oakland
The Astros, believe or not, seem to be on a winning streak (having won their last two games) and are currently 48-99, for a .327 winning percentage. This projects out to 109 losses.
Your loser update: week 1, 2012.
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012We are back, baby! Like that toenail fungus you just can’t get rid of.
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
New York Football Giants
Indianapolis
Cleveland
St. Louis
Miami
Kansas City
Jacksonville
New Orleans
Buffalo
Tennessee
Carolina
Green Bay
Seattle
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Oakland
And as we draw ever closer to the end of the long national nightmare that is baseball season, the Houston Astros are 44-97, with a .312 winning percentage. This projects out to 111 losses.
(As best as I can tell, the Astros have been mathematically eliminated from any possibility of post-season play. The Chicago Cubs have an extremely long shot at a wild card slot, still. I don’t think this is going to happen, but they haven’t technically been mathematically eliminated, so I don’t have to pay off Lawrence. Yet.)
And we’ll have fun, fun, fun until Daddy takes the newspapers away…
Friday, August 31st, 2012The street finds its own uses for things.
Oh, look! Julie Taymor and the “Spider-Man” producers have settled their lawsuit out of court.
Quel frommage!
The worst Division I football program in history?
Savannah State is playing Oklahoma State and Florida State in the first two games, and will collect $860,000 (“which represents about 17 percent of the Tigers’ modest athletic budget”) for those games.
By the way, last year was a “1-10 season that included losses by scores of 63-6, 41-6, 47-7, 45-3 and 59-3, in addition to a defeat at the hands of a team that had lost 29 conference games in a row.”
There’s an interesting piece in the LAT about George Perez, former city manager and city councilman in Cudahy. (Previously.) Perez has not been charged with any crimes, yet, but is a major figure in the criminal cases against other Cudahy officials:
Perez started out as a janitor in Cudahy and worked his way up to the city manager position
And this is kind of interesting:
So there were concerns twelve years ago, but nothing happened? Quel frommage, again!