tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11923437.post5331097251994401480..comments2008-07-30T04:46:09.201-04:00dakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02768386460112735397noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11923437.post-74717085285682396282008-07-30T04:46:00.000-04:002008-07-30T04:46:00.000-04:00I've been receiving/reading some criticism about this post, which basically goes like: <BR/><BR/>"Well, hold on. It's not like Sabes was trying to say something totally genius. This is one of a million stupid things that people say about baseball -- who cares?" <BR/><BR/>In response to the first part: yes, it was absolutely like he was trying to say something totally genius. I listened to the interview carefully, and he did not say: "But, you know, in the playoffs anyone who wins in the first round can win the World Series" or "I guess anyone who wins the first round can win it all." <BR/><BR/>He had been holding on to this nugget -- I remind you that it had almost nothing to do with the question he was asked (which team do you like to win the NL Pennant) -- and delivered it with as much as gravitas as anything else he said in the whole interview. This is the "one thing [they've] learned" that he had deemed important enough to tell us about.<BR/><BR/>As far as the other stuff goes...well, of course. You either care or you don't. You probably shouldn't. We do, we write about it -- I don't really know why anymore -- and you can read it if you want. <BR/><BR/>Great.dakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02768386460112735397noreply@blogger.com