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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (84098)10/13/2003 4:52:28 PM
From: reaper  Read Replies (1) of 209892
 
<<if you remove it from the context of Saturday's game>>

but context is the whole point. you can stand guys up for leaning over the plate and hitting well-located pitches on the black. you cannot stand guys up when you leave pitches out over the plate and they hit them over the wall -- that's what they're supposed to do.

Pedro was "wrong" to be throwing at Garcia only in context. if they Yankees were hitting good pitches, Pedro has every right to back a guy off the plate. but they were hitting pitches that many decent semi-pro players would have hit, so then he is only acting in anger / retaliation, which is crap.

which is precisely why you also have to look at the Clemens pitch in context, and not just as an absolute (the "absolute" being that the pitch really wasn't that close, though it was purposefully abnormally high).

but of course context eludes all sportswriters and most sportscasters, who of course would have real jobs if they had any understanding of subtlety.

Cheers
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