A Tale of Two Cities
Arizona & Kansas City
Background: I was born and raised in the NYC area; I went to college in Boston. I have been saturated and inundated with essentially five teams for the majority of my life. BOS, NYY, NYM, PHI, ATL. About 90% of every friend I’ve ever known has liked one of those five teams. I’ve heard and witnessed both sides of every Rivalry these teams have produced. I’ve actively rooted and been a fan of 3 of these teams. But mainly I can’t profitably bet on any of these teams. The news and information is just to skewed, especially with my personal mindset gets involved.
Project: Instead of going into each day and looking at matchups, looking for value, etc., this project will take me on a journey through two different organizations for the entire season. To judgmentally and effectively decode a season through these two teams without having emotional or social connections to distract and distort a logical view.
Goal: A decision will be made on every game the two teams play. O/u, RL, ML, 5 inning, you name it. At least one play will be made on every game that these two teams will play. With no emotional connection to the teams, cities, or players, the picks will be solely based on facts and numbers. Hopefully, a small write-up will come with each pick, however when real life calls, the write-ups will suffer.
Why these teams: I aimed to pick two teams that have the least amount going for them, while not completely being a god awful team, which eliminates Pitt and Seattle. A team from each league was picked to minimize crossover, only 1 interleague series is played in June. Another deciding factor was the limiting the amount of times these teams play those that cloud judgment, which eliminated all teams from the NL and AL East. Initially I was looking at Minn and either SF or LA, but these teams are just too public and have that minor cloudiness built into them. Outside of Arizona and the Kansas City Metro area, no one cares about these two teams; they are simply just there.
Only KC plays tomorrow. Should have that first pick a little later tonight or early AM tomorrow.