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It will be an unwatchable series. The Twins suck.
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I didn't say that the elimination game didn't have more pressure. I am saying that any playoff game has a lot of pressure for a young pitcher. I am also saying that the team shouldn't put itself in a situation where if a young pitcher shits himself that the season is over. I expect Bard will also get some meaningful innings which will be high pressure because it is the play offs, but I wouldn't expect that he should be protecting a 1- run lead in game 5. That would not be very smart. You can get a kid big game experience and acclimated to the pressure of those games without rolling the dice by putting the whole season on the line for one bad start or appearance by a rookie.
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Why not throw him out there to get experience when the Sox are up 2 games to none. They used Lester in 2007 when they were up 3-0 in the WS. It's still big game experience. If he stinks out the joint, you have another shot with Beckett and Lester or both. I don't think you let the kid take the hill with the team facing elimination. Lackey is the only rookie to be put in that situation that I can think of in more than 20 years. Buchholz can have a nice career, but he did not dominate the league this year. It would not be a good idea to put him in that position.
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Buccholz does not yet belong in the class of Beckett and Lester who are proven aces and big game play off pitchers. You live and die with Beckett and Lester. If they hit a rough patch for the play offs, you're done. It's as simple as that. There are no alternatives to pitching your aces--- none. Buchholz is a 3rd, 4th or 5th starter. He is not an ace. You go with the hot hand. There are alternatives. IMO, Dice K is the best option among the alternatives.
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I completely agree. The Rent-a-Wreck program has proven to be a failure year in and year out. Ultimately it is not cheap financially, because you need to have 2 or 3 options backing up each of these lames. This season we had Penny, Smoltz and Byrd none of which could hold down the 5 slot. It has also proved to be costly in wins and losses. Also agreed that Duscherer's versatility is meaningless.
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His post season record shows that he almost always keeps his team in the game and gives them a chance to win and they have won all but one of his post season starts.
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... And Buchholz has a long record of coming up big when the team has counted on him. Are you mixing him up with Josh Beckett?
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How the hell is this relevant? Should the pitch Bowden, because ANYONE can get hot?
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You go with the hot hand, not the cold hand, especially when the cold hand has no big game experience. Buchholz's final two starts merit him getting dropped to the 4th slot. Lowe got dropped from the rotation altogether and he had more experience than Buchholz. You don't put the cold hand out there hoping that he gets hot in a huge game. That's called a hunch. You don't manage the post season based on hunches.
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He was very spotty that year. He had a good June and a pretty good August that carried through to his first 3 starts in September. He was going deep into games. It looked like he had turned a corner, and then the wheeels came off. Anyway, you seized on the wrong point. It's not relevant whether Lowe sucked for the whole year or only part of the year. It is relevant that he sucked at the end and he got dropped from the rotation and almost didn't make the post-season roster. He played that post season only because of injury and then he got hot.
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All of his starts have been good since he returned. He's had 3 quality starts out of 4 starts with a 2.22 ERA. In his last 4 starts Buchholz has had 2 quality starts with a 6.10 ERA. Who's hot?
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I phrased my post poorly. I meant that they have not been pumpkins for the last month, but they will be when they play the Yankees.
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Lowe didn't suck the entire 2004 season. He sucked for the last month, and he was pulled from the rotation for the playoffs. He did not start in the ALDS. He won the ALDS clincher out of the bullpen. He got his first ALCS star because Schilling was injured. He got the game 7 start because Arroyo got removed from the rotation after s***ing the bed in game 3. He got back in the rotation because of injury and he stayed in the rotation, because he had become the hot hand. Buchholz is not the hot hand right now and he is inexperienced. Pitching him instead of Dice K is not the smart move.
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If the Twins make it to the Play offs, they will turn back into pumpkins agains the Yankees.
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So, the terrible starts with all the gopher balls don't concern you at all? How will you feel if the whole season is riding on Buchholz in the first big game of his career?
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You will probably see him hit into a few DPs
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Buchholz is going tostart game 3. I don't get it. He has thrown 2 major stinkers in a row. Dice K has pitched well and he has the experience advantage.
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82 pitches in 2 2/3 innings.
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The Sox owners were in the room. They asked what he was looking to get. He told them and they left. Deal closers don't leave the table until there is a deal. I'm sorry, but they messed up. They had access and the Yankees didn't. He threw out his number. The Sox should have said, if that's what you want let's agree now, or we are done with this negotiation. It would take a pair of brass balls to let them walk away after they had agreed to his terms in hopes that the Yankees would give him what he wanted. You can try to argue that he knew he could get what he wanted from the Yanks. If that were the case, why was he talking to the Red Sox at all. He was talking to the Sox, because he didn't even know if the Yanks had any interest in signing him.
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Political capital at home and abroad is the Chief Exec's most valuable asset. He squandered some with this. If I was advising him, I would only have recommended that he go if the bid was in the bag for the US. Maybe they thought it was in the bag. If so, someone duped them.
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I've got 17,000 + posts. I've been high-jacking and diverting threads for some time now. Anyway, the press over here is already blaming Bush
