Ted Lilly is....Consistamazing

There are few superlatives we haven't used to describe Ted Lilly, so we're going to go ahead and make one up: Consistamaze. As in, "Ted was his usual Consistamazing self" or "TL dominated with his consistamaze curve and consistamaze core of abdominal muscles." Even better, TL's line from last night, your standard consistamazing 7 IP, 7 K, 1 ER and 1 Win gifted to Angel Guzman.

While we thought about focusing on the fact that Ted decided to throw a no-decision instead of a no-hitter (classic TL--picking up Guzman and Gregg when they needed it most--footsteps poem kind of stuff), we decided to instead put our efforts to the consistamazing photoshop above.

Are there really any doubters now? Can anyone make any arguments against Ted Lilly being the true Cub Hero of the last 3 years? We did some back of the envelop calculations on Baseball-Reference and came up with this:

In games Ted Lilly has started after Cub losses, the Cubs record is:

2007: 12-4
2008: 10-5
2009: 3-2
TL Career: 25 - 11

WTF? Is that right? 25 -11. That's a 70% Cubs win percentage after losses in games Ted Lilly starts. That's consistantly amazing preformances when his team needs him most. That's Ted Lilly.

Sometimes, we even doubt our TLFCselves, so we rechecked the numbers, tried to get the TLFC Super Computer to help (to no avail--still obsessed with "Jon and Kate + Eight") and still got the same amount. We also considered that maybe TL had Jason Marquis or someone pitching before him, so that's why the Cubs lost and that these were very good teams, but that has no bearing on the next days win... at least not to the effect we're seeing here. In a word, this is Consistamaze.

Ted Lily is Consistantly Amazing - Consistamaze.