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From: absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Bitter end for the Blue Jays
Message-ID: <16899@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 17:49:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.16899
Posted: Thu Oct 17 17:49:58 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 02:19:13 EDT
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Reply-To: absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: Blue Jays, Toronto, experience
Summary: 

In article <16895@watmath.UUCP> bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>  ...
>
>But the real conclusion I can come to is that experience did out in the
>end.  ...
>

There was some discussion on the net about KC experience beating a
superior team (the Jays).  I didn't want to believe that this could
happen, but it is exactly what happened.  I still think the Jays are
superior over KC, but inexperince can really kill you.  It seemed to
me that the Jays got frusturated after not having great hitting every
game, and in the last three or four games, all of
them seemed to try to go for the long ball, flying out most
of the time.  Leaving man on second and third several times?  Can't
do that for very long without being hurt.  A single will score at least
one, maybe two; homeruns aren't always the answer.  Just look at game
3; KC had three home runs, but the Jays still came close to beating them.

By the way, I didn't think the series was managed too well by Bobby Cox.
However, it is easy to second guess him now.  He probably learned a lot
during these seven games too.

>  ...
>Congrats Blue Jays.  You lead the league for essentially the whole season.
>You'll get your pennant, and it's going to be soon.  Who knows, someday
>there may be a 401 World Series!
>
>(401 is the highway between Toronto and Montreal)

That would be interesting (maybe not to everybody).  Let's hope it will
happen someday.

I won't say next year we'll do it; just see where the Tigers were
this year.  Actually I thought this year the Jays should have done
it, becaue you never know when you'll get this far again (although
they have a young team, which hopefully matured a lot yesterday, so
maybe they'll make it in the next few years).