When settling in to hammer out this week’s power rankings, I wondered how it might feel to apply this same process to other aspects of life. What if, every 10 minutes of a movie, you paused to rank all the characters? Or ranked every shirt you owned each Sunday evening? Or maybe even took the time to rank your friends in a public forum (Tom from MySpace was an agent of chaos for this)?
It might seem kind of silly to do any of these things, yet we carry on in this space every Monday morning. (Well, except for last week because we were less than a few days into the season.) Because it’s not called MLB Sometimes Power Rankings, or MLB Whenever We Feel Like It Power Rankings. This is the MLB Weekly Power Rankings, and they will be here, rain or shine, at this time each week through the end of the season for your reading pleasure.
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