Letters to the Editor
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Hello?
You don't watch football?
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In The 21-1 Streak
Jeff Francis was the bum that lost. How can he look his team mates in the eye?
If I was the Colorado owner I'd have some fun with this in Francis' next contract negotiations for sure.
The fans should toilet paper the trees at his house at 3 in the morning and leave a sign---- LEAVE LOSER.
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21 out of 22
Would you believe 21 out of 22?
Why not? The Rockies had the same odds of winning this game as the last one, and the one before that, and the one before that. Plus, it's not like they bludgeoned the Diamondbacks, who scored fewer runs than their opponents during the regular season (talk about luck!).
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Baseball coach SAT
OK, you're the coach of a team and have three pitchers to use in the first three games of the ALCS. Pitcher A is your team ace who has the nastiest breaking ball in October. Pitcher B is an import who possesses a stunning array of pitches but tends to the shaky and less-than-confident. Pitcher C is a precision pitching veteran who thrives on conflict and big games. You have pitched them in the order of A, B, C all season.
Your first two games are at home, the third game is on the road.
Do you:
1) Pitch A to win game 1, B at home in game 2 up 1-0 to provide extra boosts of confidence, and C on the road in game 3
or
2) Pitch A to win game 1, pitch C at home in game 2, and B in the third game, sending him a message that you don't trust him enough to make him a 2-game starter, and putting him on the road in a high-stress, must-win situation?
If you answered 2, you'd also probably be likely to bring in Eric Gagne in extra innings. And you'd be wrong both times.
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????
"2) Pitch A to win game 1, pitch C at home in game 2, and B in the third game, sending him a message that you don't trust him enough to make him a 2-game starter, and putting him on the road in a high-stress, must-win situation?"
If you are sending him a message that you don't trust him, you wouldn't put him on the road in a high-stress, must win situation.
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not a lock
If I remember correctly, the New York Giants hold the record for most consecutive wins at 26, and didn't even win the pennant that year. The Rockies have to lose sometime (granted, perhaps not in their next four games) or else the laws of statistics would have to be rewritten. And not playing at home for two weeks can't help matters...
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Rockies
I kept hearing the Rockies would cool off between the NLDS and the NLCS, too. That was a shorter streak, but still. Like King says, who knows? Their pitching is great, their pitching has been great all year, good pitching can propel a team to a championship easily. Look at the 2005 White Sox.
Of course, their hitting is great, too, and in some cases, like game 3, their pitching was getting great hitting.
I think the Indians could use a long rest like that a lot more than the Rockies, Carmona and Sabathia looked tired out there in games 1 and 2.
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Remembering something really dumb
Last night Dorcius Rex Carey mentioned that the Rockies wouldn't have home field advantage because the AL won the All-Star Game, and I had to grind my teeth all over again at what a retarded (and I mean that in the insensitive, non-PC, schoolyard way) notion THAT is.
Sure, they wouldn't have it anyway under a system in which regular record earned it, but at least then the home field would be controlled by the actual teams playing, not by who didn't stay out all night at the wet t-shirt contest during spring break.
Bah! . . . Just made me hate Bud Selig all over again.
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I liked the letter writer here from yesterday who pointed out
that if it had been the NY Yankees who went 21 for 22, the news media, not just the sporties, but even the politicos, would be turning over every rock looking for a fresh angle on this historic baseball moment.
But alas, it's some bush team out there west of New Jersey so it don't really mean a damned thing. Ho hum. There's always next year for the "real" baseball teams.
What do you have to do to get respect, win every game in regular season and the playoffs too?
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Kenny's wagging finger
King, like you, I first thought Kenny was wagging his finger at Manny, but his expression didn't really back that up. More likely, he was just signing that there was one out in the inning.
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This much I know
Not to harsh all that heartfelt enthusiasm being felt in Denver and surrounds today, but the Rockies' bats were a little sub-par last night. After that bag-clearing homer in the 4th, it's like every Rock who came to the plate got trigger-happy and swung for the rockpile on every pitch, Matt Holliday being the worst offender. Understandable. But with a little focus, they could have added to that five-run lead.
Five runs ain't much in baseball, as the delirious Coors Field fans discovered to their horror. Some came back from the piss troughs to find it was now a 4-6 game, that goofy side-arm lefty throwing wild all over the place. Clint pulled him in the nick of time.
Hurdle would do well to keep his sluggers in the batting cages this week.
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The "no respect" card
Other than perhaps the current extreme obsession with stats, you'd be hard pressed to find anything lamer or more tiresome in modern sports talk than the "no respect" card.
It doesn't matter what sport or level, HS, college, pros, amateurs, whatever, we are constantly treated to the spectacle of some person, team or fanbase complaining how they or their team doesn't get any respect and if only they were ...yadda...yadda...you know the rest. At lest Rodney Dangerfield kept it fresh.
The Rockies amazing and unbelievable hot streak has been lauded in every national sports venue and telecast. They are getting plenty of respect so give it a rest already.
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G'nite Folks!
The Red Sox game just got lamer and lamer until I couldn't watch it any longer. These guys are being too confident and it's making them lazy, I think. I hope that they get their asses in their hands and make it or break it.
I am pretty psyched about the Rockies win. I hope that they do win if Cleveland ends up spanking the Red Sox.