Wednesday, August 02, 2006

The Joy of Sox

Despite last night's wretched Red Sox loss, I want to focus once more on David Ortiz's "perceived" clutch status. From the Red Sox Notebook in this morning's Boston Globe:
It's not an illusion that David Ortiz comes through in walkoff situations almost every time. According to Sox historian Allan Wood, webmaster of joyofsox.blogspot.com [newly added to the dcat blogroll], Ortiz has come to the plate 19 times in walkoff situations since the end of the 2004 regular season (postseasons included) and reached base 16 times. He is 11 for 14 (.786), with 7 HRs and 20 RBIs. This season, he is 8 for 9, with 5 HRs and 15 RBIs. Amazing.

Those numbers defy belief. Is there still anyone who denies that there is such thing as clutch hitting, and that Big Papi embodies it?

4 comments:

Thunderstick said...

If your internet is down, how can you post on dcat?? You must be some kind of moron.

dcat said...

Sorry Rich, gotta call BS on this one. Your joke was both not funny and did not make sense, because as Thunderstick pointed out, you were making the joke in the comments section of a website. Write and talk as simply as you want -- I assume that as a Yankees fan you'll just be making a virtue out of necessity.

dc

dcat said...

Hell yeah, I am!
But (Mr. Bengals fan, I am also a Patriots fan and I am also a Celtics fan, so I can muddle through the day. At least the marlins have never beaten the Red Sox in the World Series. Now that would be embarassing!

dcat

dcat said...

I've heard that Jeter says that, but in a different context.