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Author: snapp44snapp44 Date: May 26, 2008 17:38
In article comcast.com>, Hosmerica says...
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>"snapp44" newsguy.com> wrote in message
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>> I'm sure we've all heard about Jimmy berating his players
>> about giving away at bats. What I want to know is why does
>> he give away Sunday Games? The Team is averaging 2 runs
>> a game on Sunday and have lost all seven (the Yankee
>> rainout was also a Sunday game). I don't think his Team
>> has the luxury of resting its' starters all on the same
>> day of the week. Every Sunday we invariably find Thames,
>> Inge and Raburn or Santiago or a combination in the
>> starting lineup. I can understand the reason for resting
>> starters, but you would think he could spread it out
>> throughout the week instead of heaping all the "B-Team"
>> incompitance on us at once. They have scored 3 runs or
>> less in 6 of 7 Sunday games. His predictability has cost
>> this Team many games and is only one of the reasons He
>> is less than a .500 lifetime manager and vastly overrated.
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>Well...it's like this, snappy. You see, God created the world, the earth
>and everything in the first six days and rested on the seventh day. Since
>he created everything and the Tigers were ultimatley created on the day he
>was resting, then they must rest in honor of their sleeping father and try
>to make it up to him by not trying very hard on Sundays.
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If they wanted to make it up to Him and their fans, they
could just forfeit. Much easier on everyone.
Dave
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