Enzo Watch

From Wiki Gonzalez

In 2003 the Detroit Tigers set an American League record with 119 losses, one fewer than the post-1900 major league mark of 120 set by the 1962 New York Mets. (RMc attended the 2003 Tigers final game in Detroit, and cheered when they won and failed to tie the Mets).

The main reason for the Tigers failure to win more than 43 games was a lack of offense; for a while it looked like they would become the first (non-strike year) team to score fewer than 500 runs in a season since the 1971 San Diego Padres, who scored just 486.

To monitor the situation, RMc came up with the Enzo Watch, a (mostly) day-by-day chronicle of the 2003 Tigers season, and how far ahead or behind they were vis. '71 Padres pace. Eventually, he quit keeping track when it was obvious the Tigers would break 500 (they finished with 591 runs). Too bad the '03 Tigers allowed over three hundred runs more than the Padres did.

The Enzo Watch took its name from Padres shortstop Enzo Hernandez, who set a major league record with exactly twelve RBI for the '71 season, in over 600 plate appearances. Hernandez actually spent five years as San Diego's regular shortstop, more than any Padre except Garry Templeton.

RMc is not at all upset that the Enzo Watch was not even nominated for a Primey. Not at all.