DYNASTY?

Mulvey and his players begin to inscribe their legend on the Mount Rushmore of the LOMG Greats

DOMINANCE HAS A NEW NAME

Vinson T Mulvey has officially become the 15th Champion of the League of Mediocre Gentle(wo)men with a nailbiter 8-4-0 victory over Mark Johnson (Jurickson Store Called… I’m still not saying that name). With that, Mulvey has ascended to a new plane of dominance not seen in the league for a long time. Here are a few of those ways:

Mulvey becomes the first team to win back-to-back titles in 10 years

Richard Martindell Jr was the last and only team in league history to win back-to-back titles, and he did so in the 2013-2014 seasons. It is a testament to the widespread parity in this league and quality of owners that this is only the second time that such a feat has been achieved.

Additionally…

Mulvey becomes only the third owner in league history to win multiple titles

Again, the parity this shows is stunning, but Mulvey shows his level of dominance again by cracking into an extremely small club of multiple title winners in only his fourth season in the league.

Finally…

mulvey’s career winning percentage of .577 is the highest of any owner with at least four seasons

Mulvey’s run of success is equal to or better than every other current owner. He has only ever had one losing record (his first one). That was also the only time he’s missed the playoffs in four seasons.

Should Mulvey go on to win a title next year he would be tied for the winningest owner (title-wise) in league history and would be the first owner in the league’s history to achieve the feat. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I went around and surveyed some of our other notable owners for their opinions on this most important of questions…

is this a dynastY?

“No,” said Dan Topczewski

“Dynasties to me is a prolonged period of excellence. Michael Jordan’s Bulls, Tom Brady’s Patriots etc. If he wins it again it would be a step in that direction but he needs to win again in the net year or two to consider it a dynasty.”

When confronted with Mulvey’s career winning percentage of .577 and whether that mattered in the calculus, Topczewski was unmoved.

“Nope, it’s all about the rings. We don’t call the Houston rockets with James harden a dynasty cause they won a bunch of regular season games. It’s impressive but not important”

Martindell however, disagreed.

“So I think the answer to this is probably yes,” Martindell said. “But not in the traditional sense of what we see as a dynasty.”

“Because Vison doesn’t have most of the players he had kept as his core going into this year. He jettisoned a lot and took in even more. So as a dynasty, that’s pretty atypical.”

Martindell, however, had more to say.

“What is the dynastic part is Vinson himself. He just keeps doing this and making it work. I think you saw the league try to adapt to him this offseason and most of this season by freezing him out from a lot of trade, but that only works to a point. And that point is when people want to give up on their year and gift him a buunch of guys for one or two players.”

“I also want to say, and this isn’t me just being bitter, that there’s a bit of luck involved in Vinson’s win. No one has Willy Adames hitting 7 home runs in two weeks on their bingo card. And the last time I faced Vinson, I won the power numbers, but that was with a team that had Contreras, Riley, and Pasquantino healthy. So not only did Vinson just happen to get hot, he got hot against a team tremendously gimped.” he remarked.

Mulvey himself though, for what it’s worth, doesn’t consider his team a dynasty.

“I’d say no since a dynasty feels to me like having a string of success with the same team. That’s not really the case for a keep 6 league.” he said.

When asked what this win means for him, he got as emotional as he does, which is to say not much.

“This one arguably was more satisfying than last year since I started off the season in last place. It was a grind to make the climb back up to the top and I’m happy it’s over.”

When asked what he would be doing to celebrate he had this to say:

“I’m looking forward to enjoying this last week of regular season baseball without having to worry about fantasy stuff,”