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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Why the Phillies, Cubs, Yanks, and Angels lost the DS

By , 12:44 AM

Actually, I’ll generalize to all teams that have lost any game or series throughout the history of baseball (and most other sports).  Their opponents probably outhit and/or outpitched them, likely outscored them, and definitely won more games than they did.  Oh, and several players on the losing teams had a bad game/series - worse then their regular season stats.  And the winning teams probably played with more heart, guts, guile, and confidence, and some of them were even teams of destiny.  Did I leave anything out?

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