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To: Dales
Brenly tried really hard to give that World Series away.

He merely tried. Joe Torre did give away the World Series. I mean, how dumb can you get pulling the infield in in the bottom of the ninth in Game Seven? You might as well just tell your pitcher to groove one to the hitter if you're going to do that. If the infield had been playing back proper, it would have been Gonzalez lining out.

By the way, there's one thing separating Byung-Hyun Kim from Calvin Schiraldi: guts. Kim has them. The only guts Schiraldi had were those hanging over his belt before very long and, anyway, the real goat of the 1986 World Series was John McNamara. (I mean, who told him to a) leave Bill Buckner in the game for the bottom of the tenth in Game Six, and b) to keep his only reliable lefthanded relief pitcher - Sammy Stewart - in the doghouse all year long for nothing more heinous than standing up for a teammate outside the team bus at the beginning of the season? Bright move, Johnny Mac, especially against a club whose only known weakness in 1986 was lefthanded pitching, at least until Bruce Hurst finally ran out of gas...)
11 posted on 03/22/2002 2:04:19 PM PST by BluesDuke
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To: BluesDuke
BD- I agree with you on Kim. I think he is going to be fine.

I also agree with you on the goat in 1986.

However, I don't agree with you on Gonzo's hit. That looked up the middle enough to me that even if they are playing back I doubt Soriano can get over and snag it.

But hey, even if Torre did make a mistake there, he has won enough and handled that team well enough that it doesn't do a thing to tarnish his standing in my eyes.

God, I can't wait for opening day. I don't know what it is. I enjoy watching a football game more, but I look forward to baseball season much more and I get into talking about it and remembering and all that much more with the grand old game...

15 posted on 03/22/2002 3:59:33 PM PST by Dales
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