Verducci being Verducci

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/tom_verducci/10/14/sunday-five-cuts/index.html#ixzz29KnVds8u

SAN FRANCISCO -- Some team still must win six or seven more games before the curtain closes on this theatrical postseason. We have miles to go. How in the world can our heart rates and sleep patterns hold up to this? It's the greatest postseason since 1986 (starring Dave Henderson, Gene Mauch, Mike Scott, Bill Buckner and others) and we have just begun the LCS. The count: 23 games, 10 games won in the last at-bat and five leads lost in the ninth inning.


Do you think he leaves out the Mets on purpose, or is my Mets-hating-Verducci meter too sensitive?

[G-Fafif]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Do you think he leaves out the Mets on purpose, or is my Mets-hating-Verducci meter too sensitive?

Verducci was with Newsday then. He should know better.

[Edgy MD]

I have to say, perhaps the most under-noted hero of that post-season was Roger McDowell in the NLCS. Seven innings, giving up one hit and no runs, including five innings of sudden-death pitching in game six.

I mean, who does that sort of thing?

[G-Fafif]

Verducci: fallen angel.

As a youngster, Verducci was a Mets fan and worked a newspaper route delivering the Star-Ledger. He got his first peek inside the sports-as-news business while eavesdropping on reporters interviewing his father after Seton Hall Prep football games. He then could read his father�s quotes in the next day�s newspaper. �There was a bit of magic,� Verducci says. �I got to see behind the curtain.�