data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.baseball.104677 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Roger Maynard)
Subject: Re: Jack Morris
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
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In <[email protected]> [email protected] (K. Mitchell Bose) writes:
>In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Roger Maynard) writes:
>>
>>>Manuel Lee is better than Jeff Blauser.
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>>Again, if you had Lee on your team last year you would be wearing a ring
>>this year.
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>Er..no.
Er..yes. If Manny Lee was on your team last year, your team would have been
the Toronto Blue Jays.
>_My_ team is the Albuquerque Leftturns. If Manny Lee were on my team, I would
>not be wearing a ring. Nor would he. If, however, I were on Manny Lee's team,
Again. If Manny Lee was on your team last year your team would not have been
the Albuquerque Leftturns. It would have been the Toronto Blue Jays.
>the Toronto Blue Jays, I might well be wearing a ring. (Not that that's such
>a big deal...everybody got a WS ring from the Jays win.)
That's the whole point isn't it? Clemens didn't get a ring but Morris did.
>In the same way, the Blue Jays did not win because Jack Morris was on the team.
>Jack Morris won because he was on the Blue Jays. It was a team effort, not
>an individual one.
Exactly. And Morris was part of the team. Would the Jays have won with
Clemens? We will never know. But we do know that the Jays won with Morris.
So how could you possibly say that Clemens had a better year? No pitcher
in baseball could have had a better year than Morris had last year.
--
cordially, as always, [email protected]
"So many morons...
rm ...and so little time."