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  1. a700hitter
    Wily Mo doing it with the glove and the bat, and Youk is still eating the Oriole's lunch. Nice double.
  2. a700hitter
    Most players do not get enough opportunities for them to revert to their career baseline. In most player's careers, there are few post-season opportunities. The ones who perform above their level are the ones that deserve to be called clutch. The ones that perform below their regular season level are chokers. Jeter is somewhere in the middle. He just not a legendary post-season performer. He has just had the most opportunities. Bernie, on the other hand is very clutche. His regular season HR/AB ratio is 1/27, but his post season ratio is 1/22. That is stepping it up to a different level.
  3. a700hitter
    Playing at the same level in the post season as the regular season is not clutch. It just means that he doesn't choke like Barry Bonds used to choke in his Pirate days. A clutch post-season performer is someone that raises the level of his play from his regular season play. A good example is Al Weis. In 10 seasons, he was a .219 hitter with 7 career HRs. In the 1969 World Series, he hit .455 with a Homer off Dave McNally in the 7th inning to tie the final game. That's a clutch ballplayer. Billy Martin was a clutch post season performer. Jeter is not a choker, but he is not Mr. Clutch either.
  4. a700hitter
    Jeter is a very solid smart ballplayer. He certainly plays the game the right way. He's just not the icon that Yankee fans and the media have made him out to be. He's had more post-season opportunities than any player in history, so he's done some good things. He's just not that great. People don't make a special trip to see PD take batting practice. They go to see Pujols, Manny, Ortiz, Bonds. They went to games to see Ricky steal bases, Ozzie field, etc. There is nothing outstanding about PD...nothing. He's very good, but not great. Mo is great, and IMO Bernie's career is closer to great than PD.
  5. a700hitter
    It's not your eyes that are the problem. It's the rose-colored glasses that you are watching him through that are the problem. The cold-slap of statisics and player polls are apparently too much for PD worshippers to handle.
  6. a700hitter
    Nice long post from Riv., but out of the entire list I remember maybe one or two, and I am an insane obsessed baseball fan. There is nothing extraordinary on the list. The ones that I remember were not part of winning a World Series. A clutch player steps it up to a new level in big games. The fact is that PD's stats for post-season are just about the same as his regular season performance. He doesn't step it up to a new level.
  7. a700hitter
    The difference is that neither Red Sox fans nor the media celebrate Manny as the icon that Prima Donna is celebrated. Manny is an insane hitter and his numbers will overwhelmingly sweep him into the HOF. PD going to the HOF will depend on the strength of this bogus "Captain Intangibles" crap. The heart of the last Yankees dynasty is gone. It was the strong pitching not the Prima Dona SS. BTW The Yankeew didn't wint the Championship in 2001 either, so who cares about it.
  8. a700hitter
    That same year Marichal won 26 games and McClain won 31.
  9. a700hitter
    I find it amusing that the Prima Dona is so celebrated for the "Flip" and the 2004 catch against the Red Sox. How do these catches stand up against the Willie Mays or Ron Swoboda catches? Those catches were part of World Championships. Neither of Jeter's catches were part of World Series, and in 2004 the Sox won it all for the first time in 86 years, so what is all the hub bub about. Yankee fans and the media have to put this guy and his accomplishments in some perspective. His two plays are just not "all that," and they don't deserve to stand the test of time like Mays' and Swoboda's catch.
  10. a700hitter
    In the history of the game no one other than a few cheaters have hit more than 61. If he gets 62, he should be considered the recordholder.
  11. a700hitter
    The highest paid player in the game and the acknowledged best SS should be playing SS and the Prima Dona should be playing 2B. 3B is a more natural position for Cano. This would make the Yankees very strong up the middle. Riv you can give me all the lame excuses why they don't do this, but don't bother because I am glad that they don't. Let the Diva stay at SS and Cano at 2B with their two-step range in either direction and let the hit parade up the middle continue.
  12. a700hitter
    The dif between Lowe and Wang is that Lowe has a rubber arm. He never had a sore arm. Wang has already had shoulder problems.
  13. a700hitter
    Maybe they schedule an earlier start.
  14. a700hitter
    Let's not forget that the A's lineup blows. No Chavez. No Thomas and the #7 hitter hasn't hit a HR in a couple of years. BTW Unit blows too. He's shot and by August he'll be a BP pitcher.
  15. a700hitter
    I hate when the weathermen say that "we need the rain." f*** that, what am I a farmer. I need baseball. This weekend blows.
  16. a700hitter
    Chacon's Leiter-esque high pitch counts will eventually wear down the Yankee pen. He rarely can get past the 6th, even in his wins, because of his pitch count. Wang had a really great game against an Oakland lineup without Chavez and Frank Thomas, Bobby Crosby was batting 5th. It was a god awful lineup fielded by the A's that game. Wang is an average starter, nothing more than a number 4 or 5 guy.
  17. a700hitter
    It was a bad miscalculation by the FO not re-signing Pedro. He was an All-Star last year and is well on his way to being an All-Star this year. I think the Sox should have refused to re-sign him only if they knew his arm was shot at the end of 2004, and that clearly was not the case. Basically, they made some kind of bet that there was an expiration date on his arm, and they let the greatest pitcher that anyone has ever seen walk away. I still get steamed when I think about it.
  18. a700hitter
    Pedro is the greatest pitcher of the last 40 years. He will be given a hero's welcome. Let's not forget that when Koufax ran off his string of years that Marichal and Drysdale were also winning 25 games in some of those years. Marichal won 25 or more games 3 times in the 60's and never won the Cy Young Award.
  19. a700hitter
    Texas comes back to Boston in June.
  20. a700hitter
    Maybe his results have not been good because the Marlins blow. They are very young and not very solid defensively.
  21. a700hitter
    The Yanks are not getting any big name star to help them. You need Sheffield back, and you still have plenty of offense. BAsically, they got f***ed with the Matsui injury. Their FO will not be able to compensate for that loss. Forget Clemens. Hope for Pavano and Dotel.
  22. a700hitter
    Has anyone heard if they might play 2 on Sunday if they get washed out today?
  23. a700hitter
    How's the weather in Boston for tonight's game. Last night was a travesty.
  24. a700hitter
    Let's get Willis!
  25. a700hitter
    Instead he s*** all over the Yankees.
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