03-21-2010, 07:23 AM
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Experienced Starter w/First Big Contract
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: This Week's Out-Takes...
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Originally Posted by MoLewisrocks
Excellent perspective. And I don't usually appreciate baseball/football analogies. Really were a lot of paralells between the two career/organization arc wise, was a case of wouldn't have gotten there (to a point where a new ownership was interested enough to persue acquiring the team) without you but just couldn't get over the hump (actually winning it all) with you. Bledsoe got his team to a superbowl with Parcells and Nomar and Petey were within a Grady Little brain fart of getting their team to a World Series. Sadly, all to often what is remembered of those times is the pain...of coming up just short.
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Well put. It really is strange how obvious something can be yet so...glossed over, I guess. Took smacking me in the face a few times, at just the right time, to make me appreciate the parallels.
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