Another six loss disaster
There just comes a time when you can’t say any more about your team’s shabby performances. When you reach the third six-loss week in the opening ten weeks or so of 2047, you are very near that time. Sure, it was two losses by a single run, and another in extra innings. Plus, only one game saw the opposition score more than four runs, but how long can the excuses trip off the tongue ? Even fellow expansionists Cairo have won six games more than us and that was after finishing 17 games back of us in our inaugural seasons. We're the only team in the BURT that has a record below .500 . . . and we're 32 Games below!
Searching the waiver wire and BBA farm reject lists, week after week, just shows that there isn’t anyone who appears better than what we’ve already got. Perhaps they’d play better than our broken wrecks, but you can’t keep on shuffling everyone in and out in the hopes of finding that extra couple of points on the batting average, that couple of extra homers or some extra walks. As for pitchers, it’s a nightmare, rarely is anything half decent available, and when they are they’re just as likely to underperform. Take Andresa Pires for example, picked up in the off season and looked a sure bet to improve the rotation ( not much room to make it worse). In 11 starts in Riyadh he posted a 1-6 record with an ERA north of 5, Manama claims him off waivers and he’s an All-Star, 3-0 in five starts, shaved a point and a half off his ERA and halved his BB/9. I suppose it has helped him though that two of those starts have been against us. I think about trading our best asset, Masaki Sato, and one of the only offers I get is a pair of overpaid, underperforming OF’s who are near retirement age. Not a move that will add one win let alone five or ten to the Red Crescents.
The farm is looking no better, just our Rookie team is over .500 and the few possible bright sparks at Port Elizabeth are blocked by the only decent players we have in Riyadh. It’s a very long and winding road across the blazing hot desert and there’ll be no blinding vision at Damascus
2047 Riyadh Results against the UMEBA (Up to July 20th)
Vs BURT
| Team | HW | HL | AW | AL | RF | RA | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baghdad | 4 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 78 | 112 | 5-14 |
| Beirut | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 70 | 97 | 8-11 |
| Jerusalem | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 81 | 112 | 6-14 |
| Manama | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 79 | 89 | 8-12 |
| Team | HW | HL | AW | AL | RF | RA | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 21 | 2-1 |
| Bucharest | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 1-2 |
| Cairo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 1-2 |
| Mumbai | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 27 | 1-5 |
| Tripoli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 0-3 |