03-25-2009, 11:00 AM
<!--quoteo(post=24859:date=Mar 25 2009, 09:54 AM:name=VanSlawAndCottoCheese)-->QUOTE (VanSlawAndCottoCheese @ Mar 25 2009, 09:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->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.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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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.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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