So basically you’re saying that if only Nelson Cruz’s dad had beat him up as a kid, the Rangers would have won the World Series last year.
“So basically you’re saying that if only Nelson Cruz’s dad had beat him up as a kid, the Rangers would have won the World Series last year.”
Exactly.
Cruz’s miss of that simple fly ball was a more egregious error than even Bill Buckner’s 1986 miss of that grounder.
And now, Nelson Cruz has to live with the deep pain of costing the Rangers a World Series, which without a doubt is more painful than a whipping his old man could have administered.
At the very least, after the 2011 World Series game, Nolan Ryan should gone into the shower room armed with a belt, a rubber hose, and a cattle prod and administered some strict discipline on Nelson.