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Red Sox 2003 blather .
NESN's What If... just made me pissed off all over again.
(What If... looks at various pivotal sports moments, starting, predictably, with Grady F'ing Little sending Pedro out for the 8th/leaving Pedro in to blow a 3-run lead. Infuriating. Though inexplicably, they played the entire game over, with Don and Remy calling it [and I would give cash money to have heard that particular recording session, since the game was a FOX postseason game and not on NESN]. While it was fun to see Clemens get shelled, and then see Ortiz hit a pre-2004 postseason home run off a badly mustachioed David Wells, why are they wasting hours and hours of my time?)
Let's leave the 8th inning alone for a second.
Pedro getting out of the 7th was scary. He got two outs, gave up a Giambi HR (yay, steroids!), then two hard hit singles, then K'ed the free-swinging Soriano to get out of it with the score 5-2. Pointed to the sky. Hugged Nomar. He's DONE. If you decide to send Pedro back out, you give him a baserunner, maybe two. YOU DON'T LET HIM GIVE UP THE LEAD!!!eleventy!!1
100 simulations, taking Pedro out in the 8th resulted in a Sox win 82 times. I HATE YOU, GRADY. 15 simulations went into extras, with the Sox winning 10 of those. HATE. 20 sims of Petey staying in; Sox win 15. ARGH!
::deep breath::
Know what? 2004 did wonders for me, but that the 2003 game was so winnable still infuriates me.
NESN's What If... just made me pissed off all over again.
(What If... looks at various pivotal sports moments, starting, predictably, with Grady F'ing Little sending Pedro out for the 8th/leaving Pedro in to blow a 3-run lead. Infuriating. Though inexplicably, they played the entire game over, with Don and Remy calling it [and I would give cash money to have heard that particular recording session, since the game was a FOX postseason game and not on NESN]. While it was fun to see Clemens get shelled, and then see Ortiz hit a pre-2004 postseason home run off a badly mustachioed David Wells, why are they wasting hours and hours of my time?)
Let's leave the 8th inning alone for a second.
Pedro getting out of the 7th was scary. He got two outs, gave up a Giambi HR (yay, steroids!), then two hard hit singles, then K'ed the free-swinging Soriano to get out of it with the score 5-2. Pointed to the sky. Hugged Nomar. He's DONE. If you decide to send Pedro back out, you give him a baserunner, maybe two. YOU DON'T LET HIM GIVE UP THE LEAD!!!eleventy!!1
100 simulations, taking Pedro out in the 8th resulted in a Sox win 82 times. I HATE YOU, GRADY. 15 simulations went into extras, with the Sox winning 10 of those. HATE. 20 sims of Petey staying in; Sox win 15. ARGH!
::deep breath::
Know what? 2004 did wonders for me, but that the 2003 game was so winnable still infuriates me.