Division Winner Trivia

[stevejrogers]

This weekend officially made sure the Mets remained one of 4 teams with 5 or more divisional titles, but none in back-to-back (and belly-to-belly) fashion.

Name the other four and guess how many division titles the franchise has won.

OE: Forgot one team does have multiple titles to their credit.

OE II: Yeah, Mets are one out of five Need to stop doing something on this scale solely on a smart phone!

Edited September 25, 2016 by Guest

[Elster88]

SteveJRogers wrote: This weekend officially made sure the Mets remained one of 5 teams with 5 or more divisional titles, but none in back-to-back (and belly-to-belly) fashion. Name the other four, and guess how many division titles the franchise has won.

Good trivia question. How about the Rangers?

I'm guessing you just copied and pasted this here after posting it on a Yankees forum, and forgot to take the John Sterling reference out. Yuck.

Edited September 25, 2016 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

SteveJRogers wrote: This weekend officially made sure the Mets remained one of 5 teams with 5 or more divisional titles, but none in back-to-back (and belly-to-belly) fashion. Name the other four, and guess how many division titles the franchise has won.

So this is specifically Division Titles and therefore the answers all have to come from post-1968 seasons?

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: This weekend officially made sure the Mets remained one of 5 teams with 5 or more divisional titles, but none in back-to-back (and belly-to-belly) fashion. Name the other four, and guess how many division titles the franchise has won. So this is specifically Division Titles and therefore the answers all have to come from post-1968 seasons?

Assuming those are the goalposts under which we're operating here (SJR appears to be off-line right now) my first though was the BoSox who, for all their success recently, they never seem to put two together in consecutive years.
As for the specific number of AL East titles for the BoSox ... I'll take a shot at 7

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: This weekend officially made sure the Mets remained one of 5 teams with 5 or more divisional titles, but none in back-to-back (and belly-to-belly) fashion. Name the other four, and guess how many division titles the franchise has won. So this is specifically Division Titles and therefore the answers all have to come from post-1968 seasons?

Yup

[stevejrogers]

Elster88 wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: This weekend officially made sure the Mets remained one of 5 teams with 5 or more divisional titles, but none in back-to-back (and belly-to-belly) fashion. Name the other four, and guess how many division titles the franchise has won. Good trivia question. How about the Rangers? I'm guessing you just copied and pasted this here after posting it on a Yankees forum, and forgot to take the John Sterling reference out. Yuck.

Rangers won the AL West twice in a pair of consecutive seasons; 1998-1999 and 2010-2011

And the line is a reference to this

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: This weekend officially made sure the Mets remained one of 5 teams with 5 or more divisional titles, but none in back-to-back (and belly-to-belly) fashion. Name the other four, and guess how many division titles the franchise has won. So this is specifically Division Titles and therefore the answers all have to come from post-1968 seasons? Assuming those are the goalposts under which we're operating here (SJR appears to be off-line right now) my first though was the BoSox who, for all their success recently, they never seem to put two together in consecutive years. As for the specific number of AL East titles for the BoSox ... I'll take a shot at 7

Red Sox are indeed one of the four, and they are on the verge of making it 8 AL East titles, but none in consecutive fashion.

[Frayed Knot]

Next guess = SFG
I know they won once in the early '70s, then at least one during Will the Thrill's heyday, and then their current three hop-scotching titles.

I may be missing a couple somewhere, but I'll say the Giants and exactly five.

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: Next guess = SFG I know they won once in the early '70s, then at least one during Will the Thrill's heyday, and then their current three hop-scotching titles. I may be missing a couple somewhere, but I'll say the Giants and exactly five.

Right franchise, wrong number. The BoSox are on the verge of tying them with 8 divisional titles.

Giants 8 (FK) 1971 1987 1989 1997 2000 2003 2010 2012
Red Sox 7 (FK) 1975 1986 1988 1990 1995 2007 2013
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Mets 6 1969 1973 1986 1988 2006 2016
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Wrong answers
Rangers

[HahnSolo]

Stumped. Are you counting the Expos and Nationals as one franchise?

I'll guess the Expos/Nats, with five.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

White Sox

[stevejrogers]

HahnSolo wrote: Stumped. Are you counting the Expos and Nationals as one franchise? I'll guess the Expos/Nats, with five.

They consider themselves the same franchise, so yes.

[stevejrogers]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: White Sox

Ding Ding

[stevejrogers]

Ah hell, kind of messed up a bit, through the XPoNats out with only 4 (1 Montreal in 1981, 3 Washington 2012, 2014 and now 2016)

Just realized since despite being considered the NL "Champions" for 1994 for what I'd hope are reasons beyond Felipe Alou managing the 1995 All-Star Game, I'm not sure if the teams that finished in the division and wild card slots at the time of the strike are officially recognized as such (i.e. the Braves don't acknowledge that they were in the lead of the NL Wild Card as part of their 1992-2005 epic run).

So that being said, that's why the White Sox are allowed to be an answer with 1983, 1993, 2000, 2005 and 2008, though they were leading the AL Central at the time of the 1994 strike.