Letters to the Editor
The Notorious W.E.S.
Published Letters: 3207 Editor's Choice: 27
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Yeah, But What Can The Baseball Commissioner's Office Do About
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The rest of recent sports?
The Spurs anihilate the Cavs in the NBA Finals. The Super Bowl was Peyton Manning versus Rex Grossman. The NHL Stanley Cup was a blowout, although I didn't know that and had to look it up. The First PGA Fed-Ex Cup had 4 guys in contention going into the final and deciding tournament and Tiger beat them all by 15 plus strokes.
The NCAA basketball final was abuse, men and womens. The BCS football championship was embarrassing. Oregon State slaughtered North Carolina back to back by 13 runs to claim the College Baseball World Series.
I can't imagine all the losers had pre ass-whipping layoffs.
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Actually
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Red Sox statistical domination declined a bit in the World Series.
Youkilis came to bat in game 4 against Cleveland in the top of the sixth, Red Sox down 7-0. He started the back to back to back homers. From the top of the 6th of that game through the conclusion of that series the Red Sox as a team batted .367, with an on base of .445 and a .650 slugging for those 3 plus games.
In the days before playing Colorado, Boston beat a better team than the Rockies--the Indians--and beat them worse than they beat the Rockies. And Cleveland was not on a layoff.
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I'd Say If You Want to Make Excuses
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the layoff Tigers last year or the layoff Rockies this year I'd opt for something less fuzzy and speculative than the effect of layoffs. Like they got to the big stage, and were face to face with a team who had players with vastly more big stage experience. And therefore it was a classic mismatch.
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Last Year
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pujols, Edmonds, Rolen, Eckstein, Spiezio, Molina, and Taguchi had a combined 281 post season games played(just mentioning 28% of their roster) versus the young and less experienced team.
Anyone want to add up the Tigers, or the Red Sox versus Rockies feel free.
Layoffs....LOL.
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It Was ManRam's Homer
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember everyone dumping on Manny for showing off after clubbing a meaningless homer down 3 games to 1. From that point forward the Red Sox absolutely dominated.
Sounds as good to me as layoffs leastways.
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Perhaps
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]A good rule of thumb for playoff series would be that you have to win one game before we will entertain excuses. Not accept, mind you, just allow them and politely listen.
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Ideas To Improve Competition
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]1.) In any inter-league game the National league gets to use a DH and the American league not.
2.) For the American League hitter, any foul ball with 2 strikes is a strikeout.
3.) At line-up card presentation time, the National League manager gets to select one player from the American league team who is then not allowed to play in that game. In a series they cannot select the same player each day. Must be different each day.
4.)The loser of the All-Star game gets home field in the World Series.
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Fan Check
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been doing my normal rounds checking in on blogs and talk radio and tne animosity is racheting up towards Boston College, Kansas, and Arizona State....Again, from everything I encounter, the typical fan scouting report is as follows------Those team names don't sound good enough to me.
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droogoy
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I got it. The Rockies can sweep the Phillies and D-Backs. Not to mention the Dodgers twice and Padres before that. But it would be impossible for Boston to sweep Colorado without some kind of hocus pocus like a layoff.
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It's Not Like The Rockies Extremes Suddenly Appeared With Layoffs
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the season they won 7 of 8, then lost 8 straight to the Blue Jays, Cubs, and Astros, then won 6 of 7.
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I'll Skip The
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Letterman parody of the top 10 reasons why the Red Sox whipped the Rockies. I'll go straight to number one.
Tony Gwynn Jr. of the Brewers hit a two out, two strike triple off Trevor Hoffman to tie the Padres in the ninth inning on September 29th. The Brewers went on to win in 11.
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Gwynn Swings And Misses
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]An it may well be the Padres whining about a layoff.
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King
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I said "if you want to make excuses......" I'd prefer none at all but I'd grant more validity to experience than layoff. But not by a whole lot.
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Yes I Agree
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"However, the probability is extremely high that it wouldn't have occurred- and the Series would have been far more competitive."
This can be said about any sweep of all time post or regular season. Let's change a variable and replay it next week and it probably won't be a sweep. Hurdle could wipe his butt with his left hand instead of his right like he's been doing,
and if we played it again it probably wouldn't be a sweep. Might be 4-1 or 4-2.
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Anyhow
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Back to FAN-WATCH.
It's been bad enough listening to my fellow Louisville fans down here in Kentucky this year. Now Kentucky is thrown in to add to the headache.
These clodhoppers have had just a tiny dose of success and victory and you'd think UK was Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma. It is absolutely priceless watching the reaction to the Mississippi State game. They thought it was a 100 percenter. Now they be pissed........State had won at Auburn.
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Reply
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Seriously, do you think professional athletes really care about championships, if they're maximizing their income potential?"
I'd say the win or puke throughout an entire career mentality ala Bill Russell or Michael Jordan is the rare exception.
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Pace
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Big Red Machine is the finest team to ever walk between the lines. You think Pedroia fits into that lineup? Coco Crisp?"
No, but the Big Red Machine's first starting pitcher may pitch game 3 for the 2007 Red Sox. Maybe.
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I Found A Right Wing Blog
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I shit you not. It says that now that the e-mail address is out there for Al-Qaida to see, Glenn has endangered Petraeus and his staff.
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Tom
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like that take. The most valid yet. For 8 days they got to pretend.
Wish I had thought of it.
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For Halloween
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The NFC is dressing up as the National league.
About the only noticeable difference, in any regard, are the hats.
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It Reminds Me
[Read the article: I can't believe it's not torture, continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of that Monty Python movie parody of the the life of Jesus where a couple guys are discussing whether crucifixion is bad or not.