“OK, we won a game yesterday. If we win today, it’s called ‘two in a row.’ And if we win again tomorrow, it’s called a “winning streak” … It HAS happened before!”
— Manager Lou Brown, “Major League”
Here’s the funny thing about winning streaks: They are the foundation around which all sporting hope is built, they sustain teams, and fans of teams, even as seasons seem to be swirling around a drain, because all it takes is one hot streak, one stretch where everything goes right, to turn everything around …
And yet, when they happen?