My post a couple of days ago I talked about building offenses and the type of players teams build around. I got a couple of e-mails, saying that I forgot about pitching.
I guess I didn't make my thoughts clear enough. I don't think pitching gives a team its identity very often, really only the recent Atlanta Braves got their identity from pitching, and there were 3 Hall of Famers there.
Yes, pitching is important and probably more important than offense, but I think teams get their identity from their starting eight and bench and how the front office builds the team.
I wrote that the Twins and Angels are gritty "baseball" players. Steal, bunt, play defense, play hit-and-run baseball. The Indians are powerful strikeout kings who don't field well much like the Yankees. I didn't say a team can't win the way the Indians are playing the game; I just think it is an expensive way to play.
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They're strikeout kings all right, but I'm not so sure about the 'powerful' part.
Hey Ron,
I got an idea for the Beacon sports page. Drop me an email and I will tell you about it.
Eliminate the sports page, eliminate newsprint, eliminate paper and put the entire publication online together with lots of ads, blogs and stuff with lots and lots of fluff and tabloid nonsense? I think they're already more than one step ahead of you, Eric.
Oh come on. I am sick of people like you who bash newsprint. I love the print edition of the Beacon. Not everyone has a computer you know. I plan to work at the Beacon in the future.