As of September 12, 2006, What Do the New York Mets, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland A's Have...

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in common?

Hint: The answer is not "All those teams have 80+ wins," because this list excludes the Minnesota Twins, who have 84 wins, and the Chicago White Sox, who have 83, but it does include the Oakland A's, who have 82 wins.

Here's the MLB Standings Index for you to study:

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/standings/index.jsp

The number of teams included in this list may increase in about a week, but not within the next two or three days. (I checked the "potential" teams' schedules already.) Teams already on the list will not be excluded from the list later.

Have fun! =D

Nope. It's not as easy as "leading their divisions," either. Remember, teams on this list now cannot be excluded from the list later. If the answer were, "Teams who are leading their division," once any team loses the division lead, they would not be on the list anymore. So the answer has to be something else.

Here's another one:

What do all these teams have in common, as of September 12, 2006? (The list may possibly have another team or teams added within the next day or two; and again, once a team is on this list, they cannot be excluded.)

New York Mets
Oakland A's
Boston Red Sox
San Diego Padres
San Francisco Giants
Cincinnati Reds
Milwaukee Brewers
Detroit Tigers
New York Yankees
Chicago White Sox
Pittsburgh Pirates
Arizona Diamondbacks
Houston Astros
Washington Nationals
Los Angeles Angels
St. Louis Cardinals

You may again refer to the MLB Standings Index above. You may have to hit the "Customize this page" button to get the necessary stats.

Rico Suave and Johnnylakis,

The answer cannot be "All these teams are inferior to the New York Yankees" because the list includes the Yankees. And by that same token, the answer cannot be "The New York Mets will leave the rest of the teams on your list in the dust" because the question is what these teams have in *common*. One team leaving the others in the dust is not a question of having something in common with the other teams.

Use yer noggins, people!!!

And to the hater, AC Milan, who said "f" baseball: If you have nothing intelligent to say, don't answer the question; you're not going to get Best Answer anyway. And if I understand your run-on sentence correctly, you said, "..its (sic) football season english futbal (sic) stared (sic)"--what's "English football stared"? At what is English football staring? Here's your corrected sentence in normal English (corrections in brackets):

[Forget] baseball[;] it[']s football season [now]. [E]nglish [football] [has already] star[t]ed.

Answer 1

All four teams have won more than 40 games both on the road and at home. The A's have to win one more game on the road to be guaranteed a winning record on the road this season.

Answer 2

Yankees beat the Tigers 3 video games to 2. Twins beat the As 3 video games to a million. Twins beat the Yankees 4 video games to 2. The Twins have been the main well liked team in baseball precise now, and the Yankees have proved to be expert choke artists the previous 5 seasons.

Answer 3

This has to be a trick question, so it probably deserves a few possible "trick" answers:

1. They are all MLB teams. (correct.)
2. They all play their home games in the cities in their team name. (correct)
3. Only males play on these teams. (correct)
4. They all won pennants in the 1980s. (correct)
5. They play near bodies of water (correct)
6. They play the "Star Spangled Banner" before each game. (correct)

Am I still wrong or do I get the 10 pts. for creativity?

Or are these the only teams currently with 40 or more Road wins--with a few more joining the list in the coming days?

Answer 4

Relational matters only count for teams that are losing and trying to find a way to justify thier small successes. The Mighty Athletics of Oakland will be WS Champs this season.

Answer 5

They all have over 20 wins in 1-run games?

Answer 6

The Mets are gonna leave the rest of the teams on your list in the dust.

Answer 7

They would all be a part of the of the coin toss to determine ties for the play offs.

Answer 8

They are all inferior to the new york Yankees

Answer 9

They all wish they were Yankees.... and all kicked the $hit out of Boston!!!!

Answer 10

no idea... how about they will all lose out to the Twins in the finals, and world series