Ad Disclosure
Philly’s Teams are the Worst in North America
By Jim Adair
Published:
Jimmy Kempski doesn’t just do stick figures, he does some accounting too: Over at Philly Voice, Kempski crunched some numbers to show that the current Philadelphia sports landscape is the worst in our hemisphere. I mean, just look at what we found when we enhanced the picture above to see what the paper in Brett Brown’s hand said:
Taking into account the current (or most recent, in terms of baseball) winning percentage of all cities with at least three teams, Philadelphia is the worst by a long, long way:
Even when you add cities with only one or two teams, only New Orleans finds themselves lower than Philadelphia (I blame Pierre). Of course, the biggest factor dragging that percentage down is the .000 winning percentage posted by the Sixers, but even if they win tonight, it’d only bump Philly up one spot. In front of Calgary. Dark times are now. Dark times are ahead. But for at least two of the four teams around here (Phillies/Sixers), this could be rock bottom. So yeah, that’s the non-doomsday slant I’m putting on this.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.