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09-29-2006, 03:20 PM
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Gales that seaon of the 78 Sox is chronicled in a GREAT book called the Bronx Zoo by Yankee picther Sparky Lyle who just happened to be asked to chronicle that particular season before it began.
The Yankees played incredible baseball the second half, they had winning streaks like you wouldnt believe. The Sox didn't collapse as bad as legend would have it. The Yanks took the lead in September but the Sox fought back late to force a playoff. I just don't label that a collapse. YOu ever see the classic Bills-Oliers game with the great comeback? ****, that had to be the best half of football anyone ever played in history. An allstar team wasn't gonna stop the bills in that one. They completed like every pass and gave up nothing on defense. I guess I just have a different idea of what a collapse is. To me a collapse is when one team just does everything wrong, and teh other does nothing special. This "cardinal" collapse couldn't have happened without Houston going on insane run of baseball. You see what I mean? If the cards had played .200 ball while the Stros played .500 ball, well thats a collapse. But the Stros have been insane, when the hell was the last time they lost two in a row? August? 
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#2
09-29-2006, 03:25 PM
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Back to the Norman collapse in the Masters, you really have to give lots of credit to Faldo as well. I think he ended up winning that by 3 or 4 strokes shooting a pretty ridiculously low round. Cant rememebr the number off the top of my head I think it was like a 66 or 67. Norman shot like a 74 or 75?
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09-29-2006, 03:32 PM
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Norman was hitting the ball into ponds and things though which made it easier for Faldo to play the way that he did. he didnthave to go for broke on each hole as he would have if Norman had even played 2 over the first nine holes. Norman just lost it out there.
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09-29-2006, 03:46 PM
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That was a great day for me. I went to OTB and put $300 to win on Angle of Pursuit who won easily at 7/1 odds. Then I came home and watched the Masters with my entire family. It was pretty awesome.
I just did some fact checking. Faldo shot a 67 and Norman a 78. Faldo won the tournament by 5 strokes after trailing by 6 strokes going into the final round.
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09-29-2006, 03:50 PM
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A apologize if you wanna keep this "baseball only", but could I add Greg Norman at the Masters as a 3rd option lol? That might be the biggest collapse in the history of sports...
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09-29-2006, 04:11 PM
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'69 Cubs have to at least be mentioned.. Too good of a team to be known as chokers.
Ez
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09-29-2006, 03:27 PM
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The other big difference is that most people felt the winner of the Yankees-Sox series was going on to win the World Series. I don't think many people think the Cards will go on to win the World Series whether they collapse now or not. So what is really the difference if they hold on to win the division and then get swept first round of the playoffs? Does that make it less a choke?
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