Last week we published a list of the worst teams ever to win the Fall Classic.
To add insult to injury, opponents are hitting .290 against Verlander in the Fall Classic.
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Last year's World Series winner, the Florida Marlins, saw attendance jump 36% after winning the Fall Classic.
And Texas rebounded from the loss of Cliff Lee during the off-season to give themselves yet another chance to advance to the Fall Classic.
The 2011 World Series was truly a fall classic, with the resilient St Louis Cardinals edging the heart-broken Texas Rangers in 7 highly entertaining games.
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Even if a team is fortunate enough to win a pennant, the Fall Classic will be misnamed and TV ratings will plummet lower than ever.
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This would be the third straight year the Phillies would be playing in the Fall Classic, beating Tampa Bay in six games for the 2008 title.
But among the 105 teams that have won the Fall Classic, some were just barely above average performers in the regular season that benefitted from a well-timed hot streak, playing in a weak division or an opponent's collapse.
Remember that last year, a regular season NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and the Pittsburgh Steelers drew 3 million more TV viewers than Game 4 of the Fall Classic between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers.
If they chose to, they could even limit him to one start in each round of the playoffs if they got to the World Series, which a Washington team has not won since 1924, its only victory in the Fall Classic 88 years ago.
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That year, when the Phillies (the fourth-largest television market in the United States) played the Tampa Bay Rays (the fourteenth-largest television market in the United States), viewership was down 20 percent compared to the year prior and included the lowest-rated game in the 40 years since Nielsen started tracking the Fall Classic.
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The network has made a lot of money selling advertising for the World Series and the Fall Classic has also helped Rupert Murdoch build Fox into a valuable brand by increasing ratings for other programs (who can forget the flogging CBS took after the network lost football to Fox in 1994?).
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But, now that I look back, his actions clearly fall into a classic seduce-isolate-abuse-repeat pattern.
AUTL's rise and fall was a classic "pump 'n' dump" scheme perpetrated on stock message boards practically every day.
The good new is, is that our problems are imminently solvable and does not necessarily fall into the classic ideological divisions between left and right, conservative, liberal, but are just smart things to do to respond to a historic challenge that we face as a country.
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This type may bypass or fail to fall into any of the classic 3 stages of Rolex Appreciation.
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Sounds like someone might need to re-read their copy of the classic Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.
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