Pittsburgh in second place

Friends:

I forgot to update the standings yesterday (Saturday, Sep 26). This is a travesty because the Wolverines had an OPS of about .350 and an ERA of 7.11 on Friday, while the Alleghenys had an OPS over .800 and a sweet 2.51 ERA in 14.3 innings.

That would be more than good enough for the A’s to catch the W’s.  I worried that we’d miss the moment, than maybe the W’s really good day Saturday would push them back into the second-place slot, so I did something radical — I changed the date on my computer.

Dave has just torn his hair out.

See, I was trying to trick the database into letting me update the standings twice today.  It doesn’t like that. So I tried to go back in time to yesterday, do an update to show the Alleghenys in second, then come back in time to today to do an update showing, maybe, the W’s resuming their deathgrip on second place.

It didn’t work.  The database updated the first six teams, down through Old Detroit, but gave me an error message for Peshastin, and then petulantly refused to even try on Pittsburgh and Portland.

But it DID generate this:

I believe these are the standings as of Saturday without an update for Pittsburgh, Peshastin, or Portland.  So they are bogus standings that never existed. HOWEVER, Pittsburgh had such a good day Friday that I am certain its standings would have been better than 95-57 with a .626 winning percentage.

I suspect I’ve messed it up for another update today — although I will try later after BP updates its data.  I worry I’ve messed it up for any more updates until Dave fixes things.  I don’t even know which continent Dave is on. Let’s pray especially sincerely for Dave’s safe return from his travels.

All this so the standings history chart would show the Alleghenys in second place.  Except you probably can’t see it on the chart – it will look like the W’s and the A’s are tied.  What a bust.

On the other hand — I suppose it’s worth something to make the Dragons nervous. Just how close ARE those Alleghenys?