.2008

As I write this the Big Pink Machine is batting .2008 for the season.  That's .200 plus 8/10 of an additional percentage point.  We've almost slipped below the Flemingo Line AS A TEAM FOR THE SEASON!  And this is for 523 at bats (105 hits) - so its sorta like a full major league season (523 at bats is about how many at bats a full time player will get in a season).

Even, if for some weird reason, I had tried to find 10 hitters that would bat .200 during the first 3 weeks of the season - I don't think that I could have done it.  And in this case, I thought I had some reasonably good hitters.  I never thought they would lead the league in batting average (it was more of a home run/RBI/runs scored group of players) - but I never imagined that they would be 40 percentage points behind the next worse team in SLUBA!  40 percentage points!!!

Wow.

Of course, they won't finish the year with a combined .200 average.  So there are some good hitting weeks to come - but it sure has been a rough start...