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Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Chicago Cubs	97	64	.602	C1
2	Philadelphia	92	70	.568	E1
3	Los Angeles Dodgers	84	78	.519	W1
4	Milwaukee	90	72	.556	C2
5	New York Mets	89	73	.549	E2
6	Houston	86	75	.534	C3
7	St. Louis	86	76	.531	C4
8	Florida	84	77	.522	E3
9	Arizona	82	80	.506	W2
10T	Colorado	74	88	.457	W3
10T	Cincinnati	74	88	.457	C5
12T	Atlanta	72	90	.444	E4
12T	San Francisco	72	90	.444	W4
14	Pittsburgh	67	95	.414	C6
15	San Diego	63	99	.389	W5
16	Washington	59	102	.366	E5

American League

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Los Angeles Angels	100	62	.617	W1
2	Tampa Bay	97	65	.599	E1
3	Chicago White Sox	89	74	.546	C1
4	Boston	95	67	.586	E2
5	New York Yankees	89	73	.549	E3
6	Minnesota	88	75	.540	C2
7	Toronto	86	76	.531	E4
8	Cleveland	81	81	.500	C3
9	Texas	79	83	.488	W2
10	Oakland	75	86	.466	W3
11	Kansas City	75	87	.463	C4
12	Detroit	74	88	.457	C5
13	Baltimore	68	93	.422	E5
14	Seattle	61	101	.377	W4

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New York

W L GB

Yankees 89 73

Mets 89 73

Baltimore/DC

W L GB

X - Orioles 68 93

Nationals 59 102 9

Chicago

W L GB

X - Cubs 97 64

White Sox 89 74 9

LA/Orange County

W L GB

X - Angels 100 62

Dodgers 84 78 16

SF/Oakland

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X - Athletics 76 85

Giants 72 90 4.5

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1. Washington (8/31)
2. Seattle (9/1)
3. Pittsburgh (9/6) *
3. San Diego (9/6) *
5. Baltimore (9/8)
6. Oakland (9/8)
7. Atlanta (9/9)
8. Kansas City (9/9)
9. Cincinnati (9/10)
10. Texas (9/13)
11. Detroit (9/15)
12. San Francisco (9/17)
13. Colorado (9/18)
14. Cleveland (9/19)
15. Toronto (9/21)
16. New York Yankees (9/23)
17. St. Louis (9/23)
18. Florida (9/23)
19. Arizona (9/25)
20. Houston (9/26)
21. New York Mets (9/28)
22. Minnesota (9/30)
23. Chicago Cubs (10/4)
24. Milwaukee (10/5)
25. Chicago White Sox (10/6)
26. Los Angeles Angels (10/6)

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Seth McClung of Milwaukee by Koyie Hill of the Cubs on September 26, 2008.

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2007-01-23 23:00

by Bob Timmermann

The Daily Yomiuri has the story of a new professional league in Japan, called the Hokushinetsu Baseball Challenge League, a four team circuit in a part of Japan not covered by NPB. Its official page is in Japanese however.

A notable Japanese cartoonist Shinji Mizushima is one of the league's backers.

During the baseball season, Mizushima regularly sits down to work from 4:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and then watches baseball games at night. He also owns an amateur baseball team and played 110 games in his spare time last year.

His comic series "Dokaben," a story of high school baseball and pro baseball, and "Abu-san," which depicts a fictitious character from Niigata who plays for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, have run for more than 30 years.He also has a wide circle of friends in the baseball community, including Hawks skipper Sadaharu Oh and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles manager Katsuya Nomura.

"Baseball is everything in my life. It's the way I live my life," Mizushima said.

An example of Mizushima's work.

But what's next?

A Marmaduke league which consists of just one team called the Great Danes that just plays the same game over and over and over?

A Blondie league where the players fall out of their chairs in the clubhouse when the manager yells at them and all the fans try to eat oversized sandwiches?

A For Better or For Worse League where all the teams are based in Canada and have oversized dogs as mascots?

A Drabble League where the players get dumber and dumber throughout time?

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Comments

2007-01-23 23:21:24

1. Greg Brock

How about a Cathy league where the players just complain about their weight over and over

and over and over...

2007-01-24 02:06:07

2. xaphor

I thought the Dilbert league was in full swing featuring Selig as the clueless self-serving pointy haired boss, Loria as Wally the man who takes pride in doing as little as possible, Beane as Catbert easily taking advantage of his half-wit companions and finally the Cubs as Dilbert the lovable looser who will never break the curse of the curled up tie. With special cameo appearances of Bush jr. as Ratbert. :)

2007-01-24 08:12:23

3. El Lay Dave

A Downstown league. At the conclusion of the season, the players gather in the infield grass and are sucked through a hole in the pitcher's mound into an undefined netherworld.

2007-01-24 08:59:49

4. Chyll Will

Of course you know that all of this will eventually lead to Calvinball...

2007-01-24 09:58:17

5. scareduck

The B.C. league. Players use stone bats and balls, and occaisionally spout off about orthogonal Christian topics.

2007-01-24 13:48:48

6. Deanna

I'm not a manga/anime fan much at all, but Dokaben is awesome. I read a few of the pro yakyu series and it was actually fairly funny. Check out how Ichiro looked in the comic (from around '95):

http://marinerds.com/misc/dokaben-ichiro.JPG

Personally, I think these new independent leagues are really cool and offer more room for player development in Japan, which the current farm team system is drastically lacking. Two guys were drafted out of the Shikoku League in this year's industrial/collegiate draft, too -- so maybe we'll see a couple of guys coming out of the Hokushinetsu league too in a few years.

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