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I thought all you nerds used spreadsheets not calculators.
The thing I can't stand about this kind of argument is not whether some guys are clutch and some guys aren't, or the existence of clutch play, but it seems like players have to be one OR the other. So what is K-Rod? The guy who had a 5-1 record in the bullpen for the '02 Angels, or the guy who has given up 4 runs in 2 2/3 innings over his last two playoff series? Keith Foulke, in 2000 and 2003 combined, gave up 5 runs in 7.1 innings during the playoffs. Oddly, those aren't the two years he's remembered for.
I didn't RTFA, but is this a joke? It actually reads like pretty good satire i.e. my job depends on fairy tales existing, therefore, I will continue to pretend they exist.
Edit: I'm sure it's not a joke though.
All one needs to do is look at Vladdy Guerrero's series against Boston to realize what a load of bunk this is. Or was he reborn sometime between last October & this October and I missed it?
In crunch time, the winners seem to make the better ballplayers.
Fred Given Player performs in a playoff game, relative to his career numbers to that point, better, the same, or worse. Factor in the number of playoff games FGP (and all players who have been in playoff games) has played to that point, and come up with a numerical description. It's a finite problem. There's nothing unsolvable about it unless you're a sportswriter.
"These young guys aren't used to being in this situation of being behind, they won't know how to handle it."
After Miami was driving down the field, literally minutes later ,the same guy said something like:
"These young guys know how to win, they know what it takes, they have done it repeatedly."
In other words, whoever happens to win, they did it because they were predestined to win with their superior character. Whatever. Boston won 3 of 4 from a roughly equal team. Tampa Bay won 3 of 4 from a somewhat inferior team. No magic was needed.
kevin always has a team to follow- because his life is essentially watching sports. What a ####### pathetic loser.
As opposed to those whose lives are limited to trolling on those whose lives are limited to watching sports, who are truly the engine that moves our society forward.
Just like the great John Rocker!
Bollocks! The Cubs lost 3 of 3 to an inferior team -- they're cursed!
SWING THE BAT CLIFF, SWING THE DAMN... oh, sorry, flashback.
Isn't kevin some sort of globe-travelling epidemiologist or something?
Played by Denise Richards?
I just want to point out this is absolutely true. I don't get what the fuss is about. Players who distinguish themselves in October are born, not made. As are players who do not distinguish themselves, and probably well over 99% of all animals in the world.
A+.
D-
The vast majority of animals are hatched.
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