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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

For Your Soul

By Tangotiger, 01:42 PM

Poz has an interesting game.  It’s clear that if you pick baseball, you should pick a pitcher.  That’s because, for one game, a pitcher has far more impact than any other player.  That makes the choice quite simple: Pedro Martinez, 1999 or 2000.  Or does it?  After all, Pedro did not pitch the full season, and do you want to go into a winner-take-all game with a chance that this guy won’t pitch?  So, Dwight Gooden 1985 might be the better choice.

For hockey, goalies don’t have the same one-game impact like pitchers do.  Gretzky is the obvious choice, the Devil will counter with the Broad Street Bullies, naturally.  But again, it’s a player in a team sport, and as we know they are just one part of the game.  Basketball would be better of course, but still not enough.

So, you have no choice but to go with a one-on-one situation.  And that means choosing Tiger at his peak.

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