[NU Sports] Cubs?

[Beamsley, Jeff]

By example, the cubs didn't need to make a major move.  They coasted
into their division championship because they started and finished the
year with a better team than the brew crew.

You see the same thing happening to the Angels.  On paper, they might
have the best team in baseball, yet Boston has them in a huge hole.
Boston, on the other hand, had every reason to pack it in with injuries
and trades yet they are playing the best baseball of their season right
now.

As far as the '69 Mets, they weren't a fluke.  They won 100 games that
year including 37 of their last 48.  They did it with a roster that
included 25 game winner Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Tug McGraw, and a
young Nolan Ryan.  They knew they had a good team.  This was the year
that everyone else found out.  They got hot in August when every gets
tired.  They would have overtaken whomever was in first, just turned out
to be the Cubs.

Jeff

  


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Mike Nolan
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 10:56 AM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Cubs?

I actually had a bad feeling about the Cubs season after the no-hitter,
sort of deja vu.  

The 1969 season started to fall apart shortly after Ken Holzman's
no-hitter on August 19th.  At the time the Cubs were in first place by
something like 5-6 games, and while the Mets did have a marvelous
stretch run the Cubs certainly folded.  

And where was the stretch drive roster move that most pennant-winning
teams make, like the Dodgers' acquisition of Manny Ramirez in July?
--
Mike Nolan

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