Atlanta Braves proves that there is no right way to do things in baseball any more, especially postseason baseball
After being too nervous to watch the end of the pennant-clinching game, Atlanta GM Alex Anthopoulos went to more perilous extremes to avoid the finale of the World Series.
Like the boss, this whole Atlanta team had an odd, retiring aspect to it. They are baseball’s little engine that shouldn’t . This was a club that won only 88 regular season games . This was a team that had a losing record at the beginning of August. This was a team that had a strong reputation as weak postseason finishers.
It got so bad that you couldn’t really say there were “starters” at all, not in the sense we traditionally think of them. There was a guy who started, but he wasn’t always a starter, and he rarely threw more than a couple, three innings. it is hard to maintain suspense. The mind starts to wander in strange directions. For instance, what if they just let them have, say, three pitchers.
Maybe when labour and management are beating each other up this winter, they can also take a serious look at the game’s structural problems as an entertainment product. I wouldn’t hold my breath, but you never know.
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