Another Article About How Good Carlos Beltran Really Is
I wanted to make this a link but for some reason I'm being told the URL is invalid even though I've tested it a bunch. Here it is: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6827109/the-case-carlos-beltran
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Wow. what an amazingly written article
thanks for finding/sharing it. I have a question though. Can the sitebot facepalm of the week be a comment from someone not on Amazin Avenue? If so, it should go to the guy who commented this on that article:
As just a baseball fan in general, I have to look at this from an outsiders point of view ( I am a Phillies and Mariners fan), Carlos Belran falls off the map. His numbers are nice, and he deserves the credit for those numbers, but clutch? I don’t think so, clutch means you pull your team through, not just get them good numbers, but your team still loses. Clutch is making it happen. Clutch is Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter (please someone come up with someone other than Yankees) perhaps Lidge for the Phillies when they won the series as opposed to when he lost his confidence for Houston when he was not. I actually think that your opinion about being clutch watching a curveball go by is a case for his not being clutch. You say the right thing to do is let the curveball go by, and in any NORMAL situation that would be true, but this was not a normal situation, and he just looked at it, that’s frozen that’s not clutch.
This guy pretty much ignores the entire point of the article. The writer is saying that just because Carlos was fooled on a curve, and they lost that game, that shouldn’t determine his legacy. The Mets would have not been in that situation or maybe even game 7 if not for his play. Just because they ended up losing, this guy believes Brad Lidge is more clutch than Carlos Beltran. Yea, let that one sink in for a second. I wonder really how much of an “outsiders point of view” this guy is taking, as anyone who actually is “just a baseball fan in general” would be able to recognize the greatness of Beltran.
by KaaMets on Aug 3, 2011 4:55 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs
In his defense
He’s a Phillies fan. It’s not like he has much of a brain.
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by Dan Lewis on Aug 3, 2011 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
there is obviously chlorine in his genepool
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by Hoyadestroya85 on Aug 3, 2011 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions
This is truly an excellent article.
Thanks for sharing it!
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Great Article
I got chills at the end when he said, “In the meantime, the Giants are giving Beltran a chance to rewrite his legacy. The shame is that he shouldn’t have to.”
Its what I’ve been thinking for 5 years.
"The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed."
-Casey Stengel
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