Subj : Re: World Series To : Steve Quarrella From : Michele Therrien Date : Wed Nov 21 2001 04:44 pm SQ> I was more amazed than anything that Brenly didn't use his head and get wh SQ> the getting was good. IIRC, Kim had one semi-effective inning where he mo SQ> down the side, but he went to a full count on each batter. That wouldn't SQ> well for me if I was managing. I guess I'd be more of a Sparky "Captain H SQ> Anderson in that regard. Brenly's job that night is to win the World Seri SQ> not let a game go with "We'll get the next one" at the back of his mind. SQ> was Arizona's owner, man, would I have had a talk with the guy about that. Colangelo kinda likes that mentality for some reason... the Suns have that mentality too and he owns them as well... I don't know, maybe Brenly wanted to give us a few nail-biters to scare us a little, I have no clue. Hopefully next season he's a little more prepared... SQ> Maybe so, but he just didn't have it in those two games, for whatever reas SQ> Mark Fidrych was also a good pitcher, though. :-) SQ> Nope... didn't have it those games.... probably the shock of being in the World Series... SQ> I feel for the guy. Here he is, the first Korean-born player in a Series, SQ> TV in his own country, and he blows two games. That's gotta be harsh. Yo SQ> don't want to make the kid gunshy. Let him get through some other difficu SQ> situations, and then maybe next year, he can save those two games instead SQ> blow them. SQ> Yeah... if Kim hasn't totally given up pitching altogether... :) I wouldn't be surprised with the way he looked on the mound those nights... especially the second night... SQ> Rookie manager. I noticed that quite a few of the D'Backs made phone call SQ> Buck Showalter to thank him for all of his help. Yeah... Showalter was good, but didn't get them to the series... get the D-backs a rookie manager and they go to the Series and win.... go figure... SQ> I come from a city (Detroit) that really IS a "hockey town." I live near SQ> (Dallas) that -thinks- they're a hockey town, but actually, they only root SQ> the teams who win. I'm still having a hard time getting used to hockey's SQ> being played in areas where ice rinks cannot occur naturally. :-) SQ> Hehehehe.... I questioned it when the Coyotes came to town... (I'm from New Hampshire originally and kinda feel the same way you do about hockey) but it's been good for the city and those Coyote games are a blast if nothing else.... :) SQ> I remember watching many games where John Hiller or Willie Hernandez were SQ> in, and I cried aloud "Well, there goes the ballgame." My father did the SQ> thing, and sadly, we were right. Blown save. There came a time when Hill SQ> and Hernandez just didn't have it anymore. Still, if I met these guys on SQ> street today, they'd get a "laurel and hearty handshake" while I gushed ab SQ> watching them as a kid/teenager, and thanks for all the great memories (Hi SQ> was a little bit before my time, but the '68 series was still fresh in Det SQ> as I was growing up). I care more about that than some meaningless season SQ> games. In Hiller's case, the guy suffered a major heart attack, and came SQ> to the game. For a long time, he was Detroit's star reliever, holding ple SQ> of club records. SQ> SQ> Darrell Evans got picked off base in a critical game of the '87 playoffs SQ> against Minnesota. We had just been through a tough series with Toronto, SQ> man, Minnesota was on a haul. Well, the next inning when Evans came up, h SQ> got a standing ovation. Yeah, he made a big mistake that killed a potenti SQ> rally, but we realized that without him, we weren't IN the *ing playoffs. I think eventually we all realize that about the sports players... sure, we can say Brenly got the D-backs to the Series, but really it was Gonzo, Schilling, Johnson, Morgan, Kim, etc, etc. These guys love what they do, otherwise they wouldn't be out there night after night putting up with the petty nature of the fans.... :) --- Mystic BBS v1.07.3 (DOS) * Origin: MikE'S MaDHousE -- WelComE to the AsYluM! (1:134/11) .