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To: Sabertooth
and screw up another man's livelihood

Sorry Saber, but I have to agree and disagree. True, any fan at a championship baseball game should be watching THE GAME, meaning not just the ball, but the fielding and potential fielding of the ball - even when it appears to be out of play. How many videos of overextended arms, wild launches into the netherworld, and unbelievable plays have we seen that would make a trrue fan believe -no KNOW - that anything is possible.

OTOH, these men (or at least several of them) screwed up their own livelihood. Whether it was a poorly fielded ball by the 2nd baseman, a poor job of pitching, or a pitcher that was left in too long, a reliever that couldn't "shut 'em down", or a batting cycle that failed to put it together, THE CUBS TEAM lost the game.

Let's face it the cub's guy is just a convenient vent, a single face to focus on, and a way for the team to avoid accepting their share of the responsibility (at least for that game), and a way for Cub's fans to avoid actually criticizing their team.

Remember To the players, it's their livelihood -- no excuses for being "flustered". As they say: "that's why they get paid the big bucks".

57 posted on 10/15/2003 9:50:34 PM PDT by Optimist (I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.)
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To: Optimist
"OTOH, these men (or at least several of them) screwed up their own livelihood."

I agree. After all, they could have won last night. As you said, they're paid a lot of money to maintain their focus.
77 posted on 10/16/2003 4:57:27 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("We are a peaceful people. Yet we are not a fragile people.")
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