The Adventures of MDawg (in progress)

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Didn't the A's win 20 MLB games in a row??

Didn't the Cleveland Indians beat that run and win 22 games in a row??

What's the math on that??
(ok ok the math is something like 4.5 million to 1 that a .500 club does that)

Not that you all know or care but didn't the New York Giants win 26 MLB games in a row in 1916???

Streaks Happen.
Fact.

Sorry, monet. You're dealing with two problems with your analogies:

1) Sports aren't really coin flips. Betting Marciano or Tyson or Mayweather yielded streaks, is my point.

2) More importantly, it's one thing to pluck something out of history, like the A's or Lakers (33 in a row) streak AFTER THE FACT, and use that as an example of "streaks happen". You're taking extraordinary subsets out of all of the millions of outcomes and pointing to them without mentioning the tens of millions of times no streaks happened. This is textbook confirmation bias. It's something entirely different to start at Point A, as MDawg has done, and then two years later claim you won 40 in a row without reporters attending any of the games. In essence, we are supposed to buy into the idea that MDawg's reportage is the sum total of his gambling reality during that time.