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** Major League Baseball over the last sixty years: 1960 Pirates, Red Sox (pick a year: 1967, 1975, 1978, 1986, 2004, 2011), 2007 Rockies, 2010 Giants ''and'' Rangers, etc. Tell anybody who doesn't know much about baseball those stories and the likely reaction is: "No, really..." |
** Major League Baseball over the last sixty years: 1960 Pirates, Red Sox (pick a year: 1967, 1975, 1978, 1986, 2004, 2011), 2007 Rockies, 2010 Giants ''and'' Rangers, etc. Tell anybody who doesn't know much about baseball those stories and the likely reaction is: "No, really..." |
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** The 1991 World Series in its entirety. Seven contests, all won by the home team, four - including the climactic Game 7 - won in extra innings; Game 7 won in a 1-0 shutout by the 40-year-old starting pitcher. And both the [[Minnesota Twins]] and [[Atlanta Braves]] having finished last in their division the previous year. |
** The 1991 World Series in its entirety. Seven contests, all won by the home team, four - including the climactic Game 7 - won in extra innings; Game 7 won in a 1-0 shutout by the 40-year-old starting pitcher. And both the [[Minnesota Twins]] and [[Atlanta Braves]] having finished last in their division the previous year. |
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** The 2016 World Series was won by the Chicago Cubs, breaking the longest championship losing streak in the history of American professional sports.<ref>The last time the Cubs were even ''in'' the World Series was 1945. Their last World Series ''victory'' was '''1908'''.</ref> No one on the planet would remotely have believed this happening before it actually did, and some people didn't even believe it until they woke up the next morning and realized it wasn't a dream. |
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* Brian Wilson, a closing pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, was said by one commentator to have "the fakest-looking real beard I've ever seen". |
* Brian Wilson, a closing pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, was said by one commentator to have "the fakest-looking real beard I've ever seen". |
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* A small (by NBA standards) Asian man who is barely surviving in the NBA's Development League and sleeping on his brother's couch suddenly breaks out on a team that plays in the most famous city and the most famous arena in the entire world. He's one of the most clutch players in the league, and in his first couple weeks of consistent playing time, he puts up numbers that resemble those of the greatest NBA players to ever live. And he does this on a hugely underachieving team WITH ITS TWO BEST PLAYERS INJURED AND UNABLE TO PLAY. If you had pitched the Jeremy Lin story to Hollywood before it happened, they'd laugh at how fake it sounds. |
* A small (by NBA standards) Asian man who is barely surviving in the NBA's Development League and sleeping on his brother's couch suddenly breaks out on a team that plays in the most famous city and the most famous arena in the entire world. He's one of the most clutch players in the league, and in his first couple weeks of consistent playing time, he puts up numbers that resemble those of the greatest NBA players to ever live. And he does this on a hugely underachieving team WITH ITS TWO BEST PLAYERS INJURED AND UNABLE TO PLAY. If you had pitched the Jeremy Lin story to Hollywood before it happened, they'd laugh at how fake it sounds. |
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== Tabletop Games == |
== Tabletop Games == |
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