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Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder
I noticed while looking at the Central League standings that all teams would be in a different place if were aligned like last year.
This is the way it is now [going into the All Star Break]:
This is the way it would be last year (with current stading in parentheses):
[Note by Westbaystars: I had covered this in this article, but thought that since ashi-no-fukumoto-san had gone through the trouble to make the comparison, and since the All Star break is here, it'd be a good time to show the current standings. Isn't it interesting how both first and last place are "hidden"?]