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From: ogre@whuts.UUCP (LOCOCO)
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Subject: Re: OK BLUE JAYS! and post season comments!
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 08:38:53 EDT
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> In article <317@whuts.UUCP> ogre@whuts.UUCP (LOCOCO) writes:
> >
> >KC vs. Toronto - I think the KC experience will squeak by the superior team.
> 
> I am not sure why so much emphasis is placed on the experience of the teams
> involved. I remember mid-season predictions about the Blue Jays folding
> when the pennant race was going to heat up,  then Blue Jays were going to
> fold when caged in the Bronx zoo, they are going to fold in the AL series
> because they don't have experience, ... etc.
> 
> Surely the greater pressure is placed on the teams with greater experience,
> as opposed to being placed on teams, which few people give enough credit
> or think is good enough.
> 
> The BJs have only one regular with any playoff experience.  I heard it
> mentioned on TV that all but one KC starters had some playoff experience.
> But is the pressure on the BJs who have made it so far, so quickly, and
> so 'unseasoned'?  I think not.
> It seems that the pressure is on KC to DO something.  They have won AL West
> division 6 times in the last 7 years, but yet have have lost their last
> 11 playoff games, which seems to cause at least some of their anxiety.
> 
> Still, I anticipate that the Royals will not lie down and die, and will
> give the Blue Jays some trouble (not too much, I hope).
> 
> --
> 
> Eugene Kligerman, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
> 
> UUCP: {linus ihnp4 allegra floyd utzoo cornell decwrl uw-beaver}!utcsri!eugene

I just wish to clarify my statement that you quoted Eugene. I think that the
Blue Jays are the superior team as I said. I place my prediction of the KC
Royals beating the Jays on mostly a gut feeling of the matchup of the two
teams. The Royals are a more experienced playoff team and that just seemed to
me to be the little edge of a very closely matched pair of teams. Overall I
wish to reemphasize that I think the Jays are the superior team but in a head
to head matchup the Royals are even with them. I've been making my gut feelings
heard by friends of mine over the past few years and when it involves an AL
Eastern team I'm usually on the mark. I guess it comes from watching a lot
of Yankee matchups against their rivals. I saw the Brewers coming, the Orioles,
and the Tigers, and for the past few years I saw the games that Toronto had
with the Yankees. That is why I predicted at the beginning of the season that
the Jays would win the East.

As for next year I got a feeling that all of you Yankee haters don't want to
hear, but when pitching is sought after and lands in NY, the Yanks are comin'
AGAIN!

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