Kickoff to the 2009 college football season is less than three weeks away! It has been a long time since last year’s BCS Championship game! Every offseason seems long, but this year’s seems really long. Maybe it is because three high profile quarterbacks chose to return to school instead of chasing after the fame and fortune of the NFL. Those three profile quarterbacks will be profiled today as we debate who has the inside track to becoming this season’s Heisman Trophy winner. I believe that Tim Tebow is a step above Sam Bradford and Colt McCoy.
The Florida Gators are a consensus number one. They play an exciting style of football in the country’s best conference (sorry, Bleacher Fan). Depending on how the season shakes out, they are sure to be on national television virtually every week. Therefore, exposure is not a question and never has been, not when Tim Tebow and Chuck Norris are often used in the same joke sometimes. (You know you have all gotten those email forwards comparing the two with Tebow’s name being inserted in the place of Norris! If you haven’t gotten the email, here is a list of Tebow jokes! It is pretty funny.).
Tebow’s credentials speak for themselves. He won a national championship as a freshman and as a junior. As a sophomore, his team struggled somewhat with so many underclassmen on defense, but Tebow flourished, easily winning the Heisman trophy. He made a late charge last year, but Bradford was just having too strong of a season, as was McCoy.
This season, he is almost (thanks to Steve Spurrier or his director of football operations Jamie Spernois) a consensus all-SEC pre-season coach’s pick. Coming off a season in which he accounted for 42 touchdowns (30 passing and 12 receiving), how could you not rate him as the preseason favorite? Since January 11th, when he announced he was returning for his senior season, he was been perceived as one of, if not the, favorite to hold the trophy up in December. But, Tebow will tell you he did not come back for the Heisman. He did not come back for individual trophies and records. He came back for one and only one reason. He came back to win his third BCS Championship. If he wins a third national championship, and has an outstanding senior season, he has to be considered perhaps the greatest college football player ever. Perhaps that is a debate for early next year.
I know there are a lot of Tim Tebow haters out there. Some of them live in Athens, Georgia. Some of them live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Heck, they are scattered all across the nation, as some feel Tebow gets too much love from the national media. But, love him or hate him, there really is not any question as to who the pre-season Heisman favorite is for the 2009 college football season. His numbers and his play completely back up that assessment.
If there is one thing we know about the Heisman Trophy, it is that the award does not always go to the season’s best college football player. It often goes to the college football player that most deserves it in that particular season. Just ask former Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne.
What does the story of Ron Dayne have to do with University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy? Precedent. Many believe Dayne was handed the revered trophy not because he was the best player in college football in the 1999 season, but because of the body of work he compiled during his four year college career. He ended his college tenure with 6,397 yards rushing. Impressive stuff. He was, however, not considered a Heisman favorite until his senior season because of those huge career rushing yards, breaking a once hallowed record Texas running back Ricky Williams has surpassed the year before. Whether the logic is correct or not, it is established Heisman voting criteria that once applied to Dayne, and will again apply to McCoy.
Besides the logical precedent, McCoy’s a pretty fantastic quarterback worthy of a Heisman Trophy no matter what logical criterion is applied to voting for the award. Let’s review some statistics.
McCoy has 9,732 career passing yards right now. As a true freshman he threw for 2,570, as a sophomore he tallied 3,303 passing yards, and last year as a junior he threw for 3,859 yards. Notice how he has added huge chunks to his total every year. If he throws for just 3,500 yards – which would be a step back from his traditional exponential growth in throwing yards – he would have a career total of 13,232 yards – or, the second most passing yards ever in college football. Not bad. In addition, McCoy currently has 85 career touchdown passes (29, 22, 34). If he again regresses his senior season (unlikely) and throws 30 touchdown passes that will give him 115 for his career – tying him, again, for second all time with former Louisiana Tech quarterback Tim Rattay.
Last point – McCoy amassed 1,604 votes for the Heisman Trophy last season and finished second. That amount of votes would have won the last eight Heisman Trophies. So close… just the wrong year.
Fortunately for him, 2009 will be the right year.
Bottom line – McCoy has the statistics and momentum to win the Heisman Trophy in 2009. It just makes logical sense. Or, it makes Heisman-logical sense… which is a different kind of logic.
Bleacher Fan no doubt has a great argument for Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford becoming another repeat winner, and Loyal Homer will argue strongly for Loyal Homer’s “boy”friend, Florida quarterback Tim Tebow. But momentum is behind neither of those accomplished players. Momentum belongs to McCoy. And momentum counts for a lot in college football.
Having grown up in the Cleveland area of Northeast Ohio, I can sympathize with the frustration that New York Mets fans are feeling right now. One minute, you are angry and frustrated, the next you are consumed by a hopeless thought that things will never get better. I’ve been there… I know.
It becomes an increasingly more difficult pill to swallow when a team gets so close one year (losing the 2008 NL Wild Card to Milwaukee on the final game of the season), then to seem so far away the next year.
Being from Cleveland, I have seen both sides of the coin. I have watched teams fail because of poor management and I have watched teams fail that were simply unfortunate victims of bad luck and ill-timed injury(ies). I have also seen teams fail due to a combination of those problems, and the Mets seem to be moving into that category.
Loyal Homer and Sports Geek both discuss very real problems within the Mets organization. As Loyal Homer points out, the Mets have had their fair share of drama in the front office. Former VP of Player Development Tony Bernazard was fired for making VERY poor choices, and there was an incident which occurred between manager Omar Minaya and a reporter when announcing Bernazard’s dismissal. Meanwhile, Sports Geek points out that on the field the Mets have also had a multitude of problems around injuries, most notably to Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, and Francisco Rodriguez.
The challenge, though, is to determine which of those problems are the CAUSE for the Mets woes, and which are an EFFECT.
Whenever a team is losing, every action is placed under a microscope. Each decision is scrutinized, and problems that may have been overlooked during a relatively successful season suddenly become overblown crises that fans and the media fixate on.
Those problems are all a part of the EFFECT that comes from losing. I am awarding this debate to Sports Geek because the CAUSE of the problem has to do more with injuries than with those front office issues.
As Sports Geek points out, the Mets have still managed to put together 53 wins, something that many other teams in the league have not been able to accomplish yet. While you cannot blame all of their 61 losses so far this season on injury, it is fair to assume that injuries have been the cause for some of them. For the sake of argument, consider the possibility that a ‘healthy’ Mets team would have won only five additional games to this point in the season. Under that scenario, the Mets would be two games ABOVE .500, and only six games behind the Phillies, instead of sitting at eight games BELOW .500.
Obviously, that is all speculation. My point is simply to illustrate the enormous impact felt by the difference of only a few games. When a team is forced to take the field with less talent than what they had originally planned, those extra losses are bound to happen and they can inflate many of the other problems within the organization.
I do not intend to diminish or excuse the problems going on within the upper levels of the Mets franchise. However, those problems (or at least the increased attention being paid to those problems) are part of the EFFECT of losing, rather than the CAUSE for it.
Regardless of cause or effect, though, Mets owner Fred Wilpon will have to address ALL of those problems if he wishes to see his team make a return to the postseason any time soon.
Image your team’s staff ace is Mark Maroth, the league leader in losses (21), earned runs allowed (123), and home runs allowed (34). Image your team’s number two starter is Jeremy Bonderman, second in the major leagues in losses (19), and second in the American League in wild pitches (12). Imagine your team’s first baseman/cleanup hitter is Carlos Pena who leads the American League in errors at his position (13), hit a robust .248 with an impressive 50 RBI. Image your team’s number three hitter – the player who gets the most at bats during a season, outfielder Dmitri Young, is fifth in the American League in strikeouts (130).
If your team was the 2003 Detroit Tigers, you do not have to use your imagination. They lost an epically bad 119 games that season. They managed to break their old record of losing 104 games in a season in 1952. A tough year all around and terrible top to bottom. An ideal example of the worst franchise of a particular season.
If the Detroit Tigers are the poster team for bad franchises, the 2009 New York Mets are not the worst franchise in the 2009 season.
It is nice is that I do not have to rehash the litany of injuries the New York Mets have suffered this season. Loyal Homer did that accurately. The amount of hitting the Mets have lost is extremely high. They lost their table setting speedster in shortstop Jose Reyes, their cleanup hitting slugger in center fielder Carlos Beltran, and their RBI/home run producer in first baseman Carlos Delgado. They lost their prize offseason acquisition, closer Francisco Rodriguez, for nearly a month, too.
Sure, the Mets stink this year, but injuries have the most to do with that. Losing that kind of production will cripple any team. Injuries have nothing to do with how the organization is run either on the field or in the front office. It is a reflection of bad luck… bad luck on a grand scale for these hapless Mets.
It is impossible to argue that general manager Omar Minaya has avoided controversy this season. The tumult within the upper echelons of the organization is obvious when Tony Bernazard, Vice President of Development, was recently fired for what amounts to conduct detrimental to the organization. If the public is hearing about an issue in the front office, it is easy to say that the front office is out of control. However, Minaya apologized for his own actions, and promptly fired the individual who also made the organization look bad (in his own unique style). Is it the best front office in baseball, in performance or organization? Clearly it is not. But, it is not the worst, either.
In fact, it is possible to make an argument for the San Diego Padres, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Washington Nationals as the worst franchise in baseball. The Mets have managed 53 wins this season – 13 better than Washington, seven better than Pittsburgh (who traded away every good player they have any may not win another game this year), and four better than San Diego who constantly invent new ways to stink (and should have more losses if their division was not so bad).
It is easy to blame the manager, the players, and the front office. But a keen look reveals the real issue – injuries. The Mets do not have the worst record in baseball (there are nine worse teams than them). They did not trade away every good player to hamstring them for the coming seasons, either. Sure, the Mets stink. But the worst? No way.
Ahhh, those New York Mets. Have things really been the same in Queens since the 2006 NLCS? The Cardinals knocked off the Mets in Game seven that year. While it is true that the Mets got off to good starts in 2007 and 2008, the feel good thoughts were quickly vanquished by the epic collapses. Mets fans will never forget the unforgettable collapse of 2007 when they blew a seven game lead with seventeen to go. I will give them credit, though: they did their best to top that in 2008, but they only blew a 3.5 game lead. With that choke, Shea Stadium was torn down. A new year, 2009, brought new feel good thoughts with a spacious new stadium and a rebuilt bullpen. The collapse did not happen in September, this time. It happened before the All-Star break. They have no one to blame but Omar “I’m no longer the chosen one” Minaya. Why he was considered such a golden boy after coming over from Montreal, I’ll never know!
Minaya has built the team to win now and he built it largely with either older stars or with guys who may have their best years behind. Look at the starting lineup on opening day this season. Shortstop Jose Reyes has been battling a calf injury for most of the season. Daniel Murphy, once viewed as a promising young outfielder with the Mets, has played four different positions and you have to wonder where his head is at this point. Third baseman David Wright, a proven All-Star, has had a statistically decent season, but his power has suffered in Citi Field (think he wishes he got to hit in Yankee Stadium 81 times a year?). First baseman Carlos Delgado and center fielder Carlos Beltran have both been down with injuries. Outfielder Ryan Church now plays for Atlanta, but on his way out of town, he decided to miss third base. Catcher Brian Schneider has underachieved since coming over from Washington. Second baseman Luis Castillo used to be an All-Star earlier this decade, but now he is dropping pop ups. On paper, that team is decent when they are all in their prime. But, you can make an argument that only two of those eight guys are in their prime. What you cannot argue is proven fact. Only one of those eight guys mentioned was in the starting lineup yesterday.
That is just what is happened on the field. The instability is also going on in the front office. Earlier this summer, Vice President of Development Tony Bernazard actually challenged several minor league players to a fight. This is after getting into a verbal altercation with closer Francisco Rodriguez on a team bus last month. Bernazard was later dismissed.
But wait, the madness does not end there, folks!!
In announcing the firing of Bernazard, Minaya gets into a dispute with New York Daily News reporter Adam Rubin during the press conference. This was not behind closed doors and was not in the dugout. This was in the middle of a press conference with media members getting a front row seat. Way to drum up that good publicity, Omar! This is how you run an organization! Ha! What a joke! Somewhere, former Mets general manager and current ESPN broadcaster Steve Phillips is laughing at this mess!
The Mets are in complete disarray right now. They have an aging team with many players locked into long term deals. Everyone is looking over their shoulder in the front office, even Minaya, who does not necessarily have the backing of Mets top officials. It is utter chaos in Queens, with no signs of stability approaching!
They have to watch as their cross-town American League rivals, the Yankees, are in the midst of a return to the dominant force in the American League East. Currently the owners of the best record in baseball, the Bronx Bombers hold a 5.5 game lead over the Boston Red Sox, thanks in large part to winning nine of their last ten games.
Then you have the Mets division rivals in the National League East, the Philadelphia Phillies, who can seemingly do no wrong this year. The reigning World Series champions seem poised to make another postseason run with their current 4.5 game lead over the Atlanta Braves and Florida Marlins. They were able to close some very promising transactions, including a deal that brought them former Cleveland Indians ace Cliff Lee. And, just to rub a little bit of salt into the wounded Mets’ organization, former Mets pitcher (who many would argue was a complete bust while in NY) Pedro Martinez remembered how to pitch again for the Phillies, as he threw five solid innings on the way to winning his first start of the year at Wrigley Field.
With all that winning going on around them, you would think that the Mets might have learned a trick or two to keep themselves in the hunt, but it just is not the case.
The Mets are eight games below .500 right now. They sit 11.5 behind the Phillies in the NL East, and are on course to miss the postseason yet again. It seems, despite many aggressive moves to bring in high-priced talent (the Mets field the second highest payroll in baseball), the Mets are an organization that is doomed to failure.
What is the cause for that suffering? Where should Mets fans focus all of their frustration (and blame)? Have the Mets struggled as a result of poor leadership and management within the organization, or have the fates chosen them as nothing more than hapless victims of bad luck and injury?
Today, Loyal Homer and Sports Geek will debate that very question. Are the New York Mets the most poorly run franchise in Major League Baseball?
On one side of the debate, Loyal Homer will argue that the Mets are, in fact, the most poorly run franchise in the league today. It does not matter what level of talent they bring into the organization, nor does it matter whether the players stay healthy or not, the problems for the Mets run much deeper than on-field performance.
Sports Geek, on the other hand, will argue that the Mets problems have little to do with the running of the franchise. All teams are subject to bad luck and injury from time to time, and any organization that sees the hard luck and injuries the Mets have experienced would be in exactly the same situation.
I guess it is time for me to speak about the unspoken rules of baseball, right?
Ozzie Guillen is a respected (in some circles) baseball man. He played from 1985-2000, and has been a manager for the White Sox since 2003. He even won a World Series as a skipper in 2005, so I guess that lends him some credibility when he speaks up. But, we cannot forget how many times he shoots his mouth off. If you have forgotten, the first person you might want to call is writer Jay Mariotti after their little run-in.
Gulllen has threatened to hit TWO batters the next time he feels one of his players is hit intentionally. There lies the body of this debate. I am just going to cut right to the chase and say that I am declaring Bleacher Fan the winner! Here’s why.
Bleacher Fan argued that Guillen often has “diarrhea of the mouth” and that these most recent statements may backfire on his team while Sports Geek argued that this is a new era in baseball and he commended Guillen for sticking up for his players and being honest.
In one sense, I commend Guillen for the same thing. In the past, he has not taken up for his players in public. This time he seems to have their backs. While his intentions may be honorable, he is doing more harm than good this time. He is indirectly putting pressure on his pitching staff, as if the staff needs more in the midst of a pennant race. In theory, if fans accept what Ozzie is saying, here is what could happen. Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander could come inside and hit White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko. If Guillen thinks it is intentional, he is going to immediately tell his pitcher Mark Buerhle, “Hey Buerhle, come inside and hit both Miggy Cabrera and Curtis Granderson in the ribs.” After that it will turn into a brawl and players from both teams get ejected and suspended. Personally, I would love to see this on Sportscenter, as I love watching baseball brawls. But, this would not be in the best interest of the team.
Without the threat from Guillen, if Verlander hits Konerko, Guillen may Buerhle to hit Cabrera. Warnings would have been issued, and then everyone would move on. That is part of the game. But, Guillen and the White Sox have already received their warning now. Major League Baseball VP of Discipline, Bob Watson, issued a warning yesterday.
I’m sure your pitching staff thanks you, Ozzie! I’m sure the Detroit Tigers thank you, Ozzie! And, Bleacher Fan thanks you, Ozzie! You would be better off just letting this play out and not airing it out in public. Be honest… behind closed doors!!!
You always know where you stand with Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen.
Never one to keep his thoughts to himself, Guillen is all too happy to tell you exactly what he thinks, and why. Sometimes, that can be a good thing. More often than not it is very bad.
MOST people are born with a mental filter. This filter serves to keep all those bad things that we think about inside our head. Just as an inappropriate, mean, or otherwise unnecessary comment enters our mind, the filter catches it and prevents us from actually verbalizing it. If it wasn’t for that filter, we would all walk around saying exactly what we thought every day, and everyone would hate each other.
Some people seem to be born without that filter, and I would venture to say that Guillen is one of those people.
Once again, Guillen has come down with a nasty bout of ‘diarrhea of the mouth’ and should think about sticking his foot in there quickly to stop the flow before it gets him AND his team into some real trouble! Following a series against the Cleveland Indians last weekend where several White Sox batters were hit by pitches, Guillen publicly vowed retaliation for any similar incidents that may occur in the future.
Everyone knows that there are unspoken rules in baseball. For example:
Don’t steal a base if you are far ahead late in a game
Don’t bunt to prevent a no-hitter
If you physically endanger a player, be prepared for retaliation
I have no problem with any of those unspoken rules, which all exist to ensure the good sportsmanship of the game. In fact, I like them. They establish a code among all who play the game that certain lines should not be crossed, and if they are, there will be consequences. It is a matter of honor and respect which protect the integrity of America’s pastime.
But, what is honorable and respectful about blatantly threatening the other players in the league? Publicly voicing his intention to enforce one of those unwritten rules is a bad idea for many reasons, not the least of which is the obvious criminal implication from threatening to knowingly and maliciously endanger the safety of another player. His statement distorts the true intention behind those unwritten rules, turning a potentially justifiable act of retaliation as self-defense into an act of premeditated assault.
I do not doubt Guillen’s intention of protecting his players, who I am sure are very happy to know that he is willing to ‘fall on the sword’ for them. But when he declares that he would rather be “suspended for two games than have (his) players on the DL for 30 days” he only justifies the problem which he is trying to avoid.
Instead of worrying about the safety of all players in the game (which is the REAL intention behind these unspoken rules), he has threatened to endanger TWO more players in the league for everyone that he feels threatened. More, he is placing the safety of those two unnamed hitters solely at the mercy of his (very subjective) opinion, and he is announcing it to the league. That kind of “untouchables” mentality only serves to further escalate the problem, not quell it. Guillen is essentially antagonizing the rest of the league before an incident even begins. Now, opposing managers are going to EXPECT their players to get hit (even if they unintentionally hit a White Sox batter), so they are already planning THEIR retaliation.
Considering the fact that Guillen has made that statement, let’s hypothetically consider the next time that a White Sox batter is hit by a pitch. Guillen has two choices, and neither of them are positive options. The first is to follow through on his threat. Guillen can order his pitcher(s) to throw at not one, but TWO hitters on the other team. This would result in the potential injury of MORE players, a suspension for himself, his pitcher(s), and could lead to a fight that might cause further injury. The second option would be to not retaliate at all. The risk then is that he will lose credibility among his team and the fans for failing to act when his bluff was called. Either way, Guillen loses.
If a manager or player wants his team to know he has their back, then he should tell them IN THE LOCKER ROOM. If he wants to risk suspension by giving the okay for his pitchers to plunk an opposing batter, he gets no argument from me. By publicly declaring a complete disregard for the WRITTEN and spoken rules of the game, in combination with a disregard for the safety of the OTHER players in the league, Guillen has only served to bring increased scrutiny and danger upon his players, whom he allegedly wishes to protect.
Welcome, baseball, to the Internet Age – the age of information. Every google search result turns up a “sports insider” or “team insider” result. No information is sacred or secret anymore. Information will be leaked (just ask Bud Selig’s President in charge of the Steroids List). The lesson? Baseball can avoid embarrassment by being honest.
No one in baseball is more honest than White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen. That is mainly because the filter between his brain and his mouth is broken… and that is perfectly okay with me. Ozzie Guillen adds the honesty the sports landscape that fans have not seen in eons. Honesty is good, no great, for fans. I know that because anytime baseball is considering a fine for someone simply for being honest, the fan probably wins.
Guillen speaks the truth – a truth that is blasted to the world thanks to the Internet Age – and he is willing to stand up for his players, too. That is a good thing for his team, and a good thing for baseball. The fact that he is speaking an unspoken rule when defending his players just proves how ridiculous unspoken rules are.
Here is the main reason why it is perfectly okay to speak the unspoken rules of baseball – it is insulting not to. Every baseball fan in the world knows when a New York Yankee plunks a member of the Red Sox, David Ortiz, Kevin Youkilis, or Dustin Pedroia better strap in because they are about to be hit. And now the league knows that about White Sox players, too, because Guillen said it. Good for him.
Also, baseball is not the Central Intelligence Agency, where a spook will retire then pen a book about all of the things they were unable to talk about when they were on the job. It is just baseball. No high-minded gentlemanliness is here to protect anyone. No one is doing the right thing by not blowing the whistle. If a manager wants to call out a player for intentionally throwing at one of his players, or a pitcher for having a weird smudge on their hand, they should do that. Speaking the unspoken rules of baseball enhances the fairness of the game and eliminates the secrets that keep fans frustratingly in the dark.
We need to understand, too, that not all of the unspoken rules of baseball are controversial. It is an “unspoken rule” not to out the tying run on base, or go against percentages when building the lineup or deciding a pinch hitter, or no to make the power hitter bunt, or not mention a no hitter while it is in progress. There are a bunch of these unspoken rules, and they are all good… if not a little antiquated.
All of the supposedly unspoken rules of baseball have a common link – common sense. If they are logical rules, why not talk about them? Some of them are unspoken because they are obvious. For the ones that are not obvious (but should be) I am glad baseball has people like Ozzie Guillen to shine light on issues that need to be spoken about so fans do not have to have their intelligence insulted. If baseball is implementing instant replay to keep the game more fair, why not use simple honesty to achieve the same end? Calling out a player with sandpaper in their glove, or a razor blade in their mitt (ahem, Don Sutton, ahem), the game is improved. Honesty is good for the fans, and so are honesty people like Ozzie Guillen. Baseball could use a few more like him.
Read Sports Geek’s argument that it is ok to come out and speak about the unspoken rules and Bleacher Fan’s argument that players and coaches should not speak the unspoken rules of their sport
The city of Chicago is fortunate enough to have two teams in wild card chases (with the Cubs also being in a division race.) Entering play on Wednesday, the Cubs are three games behind the Cardinals in the National League Central and three games behind the Rockies in the wild card race. Meanwhile, the boys from the South side enter play Wednesday trailing the Detroit Tigers by two games in the American League Central. It is going to be wild!
White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, perhaps feeling the pressure of the pennant race, spoke out in frustration last week. This is something he rarely does (just a hint of sarcasm here). The White Sox have been getting drilled in all parts of the body over the past month by blazing fastballs from the opposing teams. Guillen has had enough, and he is going to do something about it. He has issued a warning to every team the White Sox play from here on out.
“If I see someone hit my player, and I know they hit him on purpose, it’s two guys going down. I don’t care if I get suspended,” Guillen said. “I rather have me suspended for two games than have my players on the DL for 30 days.”
Now, it is common for a team to plunk a batter at some point after their player has been drilled. It is just part of the game and most people, sans Kevin Youkilis, accept it. I know, as a fan, if one of the players on the team I am rooting for gets drilled, I want someone on the other team to get hit also. Not headhunting or anything, but maybe right in the back. After that, all is forgotten and everyone moves along.
But Ozzie “The Non-Wizard” Guillen has upped the ante. On one end of the spectrum, he has really sent a message to his team that he has their back and that the constant beaning of the White Sox has got to stop. On the other hand, he has really put his entire pitching staff under a microscope and put them under a lot of pressure. If Mark Buerhle comes inside on Miguel Cabrera and unintentionally hits him, the home plate umpire, knowing Guillen’s comments, could toss Buerhle out of the game.
Sounds like a debate to me.
Is it wise to speak the unspoken rules of baseball?
Sports Geek will argue that it is ok to speak the “unspoken” rules while Bleacher Fan will argue that it is not something that a player or coach should do!
Game on! The loser either gets thrown out of the game or gets beaned by a Loyal Homer fastball (and we all know that’s a real heater!)!
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