NewEnglandAmazins

Originally Posted by NewEnglandAmazins

In my opinion the Golden Age of Parity is nestled between the expansion years of 1977 and 1993. During those fifteen seasons Major League Baseball had twenty-six teams and half the league won the World Series. The first ten seasons of this era saw ten different teams crowned champion, unprecedented and has yet to be seen again. Only the Dodgers and Twins had multiple titles, two apiece and no team repeated. All but three teams made the post-season in this era, the Indians, Mariners and Rangers.

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I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days Aníbal Sánchez were to scream out "Annabelle is a girl's name!!”. It's not some unisex name, his name is pronounced a-NEE-bal, it's Spanish for Hannibal, the Carthaginian military commander who during the Second Punic War, marched an army, which included war elephants, over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy. Annabelle didn't lead the A-Team out of sticky situations, but Col. Hannibal Smith did. It wasn't Annabelle that gave Clarice the ...