03-25-2009, 10:54 AM
I just don't buy the "step it up in the big game" concept. If anything, we're talking about a small sample size that can be used to make, say Steve Avery look HOF-worthy and Greg Maddux look like a chump.
Hunter is a perfect example; I'm sure if the A's and Yanks blow a couple more of those series, Catfish isn't smelling the Hall.
I think we have a tendency to give way too much credibility to abstract qualities like the idea of a "gamer," which is a self-perpetuating concept. Bert Blyleven quietly pitched wonderfully on mostly awful teams, so he gets punished for not being on the big stage, no being known as a "gamer."
But give 'em a bloody sock . . .
Look, I'm sure Schilling will get in, and is you look at his body or work compared to Hunter and Drysdale, you'd hav a good case. However, this "big-game" myth is the same shit keeping our boy Ronny out of the Hall.
Hunter is a perfect example; I'm sure if the A's and Yanks blow a couple more of those series, Catfish isn't smelling the Hall.
I think we have a tendency to give way too much credibility to abstract qualities like the idea of a "gamer," which is a self-perpetuating concept. Bert Blyleven quietly pitched wonderfully on mostly awful teams, so he gets punished for not being on the big stage, no being known as a "gamer."
But give 'em a bloody sock . . .
Look, I'm sure Schilling will get in, and is you look at his body or work compared to Hunter and Drysdale, you'd hav a good case. However, this "big-game" myth is the same shit keeping our boy Ronny out of the Hall.
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