Digital Landfill

I was watching (sort of) the National Championship game last night, and as usual multi-tasking (that's what I call it) or fooling around (that's what my wife calls it) on the computer. 

I have been in a state of football despondency based on the pathetic state of the Redskins, and it got me thinking about how bad our teams are. 

Which raised the key question for Googling while watching the game -- how bad are Washington's teams?

So here were my criteria...

1. A city must have at least one team in each major professional sport (NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL).
2. I used the most current completed regular seasons for each.
3. I counted Oakland/San Jose/San Francisco as one city.
4. I counted New York/New Jersey as one city.
5. I counted Los Angeles and Anaheim and wherever the heck the Clippers play as one city.
6. I averaged the winning percentages.
7. I discovered along the way that there is a hockey team in Columbus, OH.

And the envelope please...(note...the results have not been audited and were done while watching TV)

• Atlanta = .523
• Boston = .653
• Chicago (5 teams) = .501
• Dallas = .569
• Denver = .529
• Detroit = .438
• Los Angeles (6 teams) = .523
• Miami = .500
• Minneapolis = .516
• New York (9 teams) = .489
• San Francisco (6 teams) = .470

and the winner please....

Washington = .364

and if I take the Caps out of the picture...the fabulous Nats, Skins and Wizards (now there's a triple crown) have a collective winning percentage of -- get ready -- 

.282

No wonder Gilbert Arenas brought guns into the locker room.

Now that I have spent the evening not so productively thinking about why I am so sports cranky, perhaps a suggestion of a more productive nature might be in order, since this is, after all, a business blog.  Here it is.

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