Bellhorn04
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Tolerate is an interesting word. In one of the more extreme definitions, if something didn't kill you, you tolerated it.
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I think it was Howard Cosell who first called him that.
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Yep, that was him.
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Good for Reddick, absolutely.
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Alright. So we might see him hit some home runs in a Boston uniform yet.
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That is amazing. A lot of their other predictions not so much.
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We've had this discussion before, of course. I don't look at it as a trade, because we got no talent in return unless you really want to count Rubby De La Rosa and Allen Webster. The reports on that trade indicated that Ben was involved at kind of a lower level, that Henry and Lucchino were the driving forces. I do think Lucchino was likely responsible for some of the bad moves during Ben's time. I was a Ben supporter up until 2015. He lost me with Who's the Ace?
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This adds to my contention that Schilling was clutch.
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Ha. Some guys are just winners.
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The Dodger Dump was just incredible luck.
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But Kershaw hasn't had any issues with 3rd time through the order in his regular season career.
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Yeah, I was happy for Verlander too.
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But if you turn to the 'choke' side of it you have some of the best pitchers in the game, like Kershaw and Price, with very mediocre postseason numbers. And that's where the 'small scattered sample size' argument is invoked.
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Well, Kimmi did say this: "He didn't do anything but step into a great situation and reap the benefits that others worked so hard to build." That's pretty close. And it's mild compared to what Larry Cook has been saying.
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Or his 'Coffee and Geritol' boy.
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It's the second championship in a row for teams that used the 'Tank and Rebuild' approach.
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I don't get the part about our rotation at the time.
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My vote for ugliest player of all time goes to former Jays pitcher Gustavo Chacin. I could hardly stand to even look at the guy, out of a combination of revulsion and pity.
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That's true. You can even break it down to each pitcher-hitter confrontation. What actually caused the hitter to get a hit on that at-bat? Was it a bad pitch or a good guess? If it was a bad pitch, was it because the pitcher's nervous or just normal human variance? And so on.
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Are there any actual quotes to this effect?
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I know one thing, Chris Taylor is making a strong bid for this year's Mr. Clutch award.
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There's no fairness or anything to alternating - it's totally random! Best record might seem to be fair but the first issue is the different leagues, different schedules and the fact that the team with the better record may have lucked into a much easier schedule. There's really no guarantee of fairness at all.
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Gurriel hangs a 13-pitch at bat on Darvish before getting out. Is that ironic or something?
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Darvish is having a rough World Series so far.
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Before Selig messed with things home field just alternated and everyone was fine with it. I understand the argument for best record but there are some issues with that too.
