Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Impossible Return


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The result was delete.  Kurykh  00:25, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

The Impossible Return

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Full of OR and NPOV, and most fatally, not notable. The 2001 Seattle Mariners missed setting a new MLB record for the most wins in a season by a team by one game, and this game—a regular season game—was one of them. That is the only claim to notability this game has. Granted, for Mariners fans, this was the most heartbreaking, but this was merely one in 54 games they lost that they could have won, and it's quite arguable this game was not any more notable than those games, or any regular season MLB game. It's not the greatest comeback in major league history either (see this), and that game doesn't have an article. Even the title given for the game is unsourced and non-existant on Google except for Wikipedia and some blogs. Full disclosure: I'm a Mariners fan, but I don't think my bias is an issue here. hateless 08:37, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This article brings back fond memories. As a Red Sox fan, just listening to the Sunday night radio broadcast on ESPN, I turned off the game in the 8th inning, assuming the Mariners would hold on to win.  I found out the truth when browsing the Tuesday New York Times sports page, where there was a front-page column about the comeback two days earlier, and I was left to wonder - you mean the Mariners lost?


 * I guess this is the other famous sliver of baseball history for one Mike Bacsik.


 * The nominator rightly points out that the lead section is highly pro-Indians, and the article must have been written by Indians fans. (History is written by the winners.)  However, it is not notable as a regular-season game, since there have been two other comebacks from 12 runs down in the early 20th century.  Should we have an article about the game where Mark Whiten hit 4 home runs and had 12 RBI?  What about the game last year when the Dodgers hit four straight homers off the Padres in the bottom of the ninth, then came from behind in extra innings to win?  All these are nice games, but trivial in the larger context of baseball history. Shalom Hello 17:05, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete while a great comeback, I do not think this has enough historic notability (outside Indian fans) per WP:NOT Corpx 03:53, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


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