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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1066374" data-attributes="member: 18006">It's truly remarkable how they clawed their way from the cellar to the best record in baseball this year. Their first 46 games, they went 21-25, .465. On May 8th, they beat the Baltimores 5-2, and in the 3 months since then, they've played .712 ball - 47-19. If they'd played at that pace all year, and continued all the way through the season, they'd finish as one of only three teams in MLB history to win 115 games.As it is, they're on pace to finish 103-59, .640. Which (considering the way they started out) would be amazing if they can keep it up.We're seeing something special here. I don't know how long it can last, because the chances that they can maintain that pace for the last 50 games are slim. But right now, they're playing some of the best baseball in the history of the franchise.It would have been so easy for them to fold in May, at 21-25, to lose hope and motivation. But they refused to take the easy way out. They believed in themselves, and they believed in one another, and they fought their way back.I don't want to jinx them, but this is starting to feel like a storybook season, a charmed season.</blockquote>

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