Under Jack Zduriencik and Co, here are the month-by-month records for the Mariners
April, 2009: 13-9
May, 2009: 11-18
June, 2009: 15-10
July, 2009: 14-13
August, 2009: 15-14
Sept/Oct, 2009: 17-13
April, 2010: 11-12
May, 2010: 8-19
June, 2010: 14-13
Aside from the two Mays, only April of this year was a below .500 month and just barely. Even separating September and October of last season leaves both months above .500. How then would the Mariners have looked if we could just erase May from the calendar, or perhaps replace it with some earlier month like Smarch during which no baseball is played?
2009 AL West Standings, No May Edition
Mariners 74-59
2010 AL West Standings, No May Edition
Rangers 34-22
Angels 32-25
Mariners 26-30
Athletics 25-32
Obviously, this doesn't mean anything. Frankly I went into investigating this with the thought that the 2009 team would come out as division champs, but alas the Angels had a mediocre May, too. The 2010 standings would also look a lot closer if this July had yet to happen.
Still, not last! In this completely hypothetical and meaningless view, not last!
May?
More like may not!
Jeff Sullivan - July 7, 2010
We're number 1! We're number 1!
abender20 - July 7, 2010
Actually, numbers 2 and 3 respectively.
JLProck - July 7, 2010
Scrub the last three games of 2008 and we'll call it even
lemonverbena - July 7, 2010
This seems worse than rosterbation to me.
It’s not even like there would be a good reason, like a freak Tyrannosaurus getting loose during May 2 years in a row, that would account for it.
GhettoBear04 - July 7, 2010
There's no way it's worse than rosterbation.
This is nothing more than a tidbit of information.
Aaron Campeau - July 7, 2010
You're right.. Stop writing stuff like this on my site, Jeff.
abender20 - July 7, 2010
We're just one good Mayer away from a winning season.
Kenneth Arthur - July 7, 2010
A good Mayer, even just a Mauer we dont' want to be too picky.
SgtSasquatch - July 7, 2010
Ironically, May is Joe Mauer's best month.
According to this. I’m just out for the chuckles though, not trying to rosterbate, I swear.
SgtSasquatch - July 7, 2010
or disMAY
Rickfansince76 - July 7, 2010
May has been a notoriously crappy month for this team for some reason.
Since at least 2005. I kept thinking that one of the reasons, aside from this season, is us getting a healthy (or unhealthy) helping of Yankees and Red Sox games. And in multiple years, we had a .500-ish April followed by a bad May.
I dunno. It’s kinda strange, and it definitely goes beyond the Zduriencik age.
ThundaPC - July 7, 2010 via mobile
I hear the weather in Smarch is lousy.
Boz86 - July 7, 2010
Stupid Smarch
pdb - July 7, 2010
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