Letters to the Editor
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Just Some Thoughts
Fox coverage of baseball is overall horrendous, but like King I thought the Apodaca bit was pretty good. Number 1, it's always nice to have Tim McCarver proven wrong and secondly, I thought it was insightful of how a coach tries to calm down his pitcher in that tight situation. I think the whole idea of pitching to contact is lost on lots of baseball fans, and framing the situation to one pitch gets you out of this was interesting.
I also get a kick out of how many sportswriters across the country are handing the title to the Sox already. Didn't they just watch the ALCS? While it's certainly better to be up 2 games than down, I wouldn't count the Rockies out just yet. I think the Notorious one pointed out yesterday that this year is so far like '96, when a well rested Yankee team got smoked by a Braves team that was probably the favorite and just came off a 1 game to 3 comeback by killing the Cards in three straight. And to boot, that Braves team was heading home after going up 2-0.
Finally, I think one of the fringe benefits of the big spending teams is that their scouting departments are usually very strong. I think Boston deserves alot of credit for having apparently scouted this Rockies team very well. There's no better example of that than the called pickoff of Holliday. He was out by a country mile.