[net.sport.baseball] RED-HOT runnin' Redbirds

dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) (10/21/85)

><   It's time to debunk this "career year" nonsense that non-believers
><use to explain away the beginnings of DYNASTY in St. Louis.
>
><the "career year" people are just the latest in a long line of non-
><believers who just cannot understand how a team can be the best in the
><world without hitting home runs.  Just watch.
>
I congratulate the Cards on their great season, but only rabid Cards fan
blinded by loyalty could fail to recognize (just check the stats) that
John Tudor, Willie McGee, Tommy Herr, and Ozzie Smith had career years.
Their stats just don't come close in any previous season.  It's too early
to tell whether or not Vince Coleman's season was a career year.  He'll
probably hold the playoff record for "most times eaten by automatic
tarpaulin roller" for some time to come :-).  Oh, yeah, Danny Cox, Jeff
Lahti, and Ken Dayley all had career years, too.  Look it up.
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jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes) (10/22/85)

> ><   It's time to debunk this "career year" nonsense that non-believers
> ><use to explain away the beginnings of DYNASTY in St. Louis.
> >
> ><the "career year" people are just the latest in a long line of non-
> ><believers who just cannot understand how a team can be the best in the
> ><world without hitting home runs.  Just watch.

Who cares if the Cards' players all had career years or not?  They still won
the NL East, the NL Championship and are 2 games away from winning it all.
Something 25 other teams in the Majors wish they could do if only once. 

Let's go Mets, oops sorry that's for next year.  Let's go Cards.

						Joseph M. Dakes
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						Reading, PA
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