Owen Good's discussions

The Pats ran for 113 combined — which isn’t chicken feed, but it’s a fifth of what Brady threw for.

And the Eagles ran for more yardage— and probably could because they led most of the way. I’ll amend my comment to say that Brady’s passing total is heavily influenced by trailing so much of the game and the demands of… Read more

No offense, but this has shit to do with you. Read more

Oh God, it’s a highlight truther. Read more

Obligatory:

Brady threw for a ton, but he had about a dozen throws where the ball looked like shit or it was a timing route to someone not in on the plan. The raw numbers are impressive but sometimes quarterbacks end up with huge totals just because of repetition. It looked to me more like a product of trailing nearly all of the… Read more

This play was a thing of beauty. Also love Ertz getting over for the final block to pull the whole thing off. This took balls, and the real winner was the viewing public because Christ almighty that was fun to watch. Read more

The other MVP was the rule about alternating home field advantage, rather than giving it to the club with the better record. L.A. opened both series with two games at home despite having the third fewest wins of the postseason qualifiers. Read more

That was an offhand remark, but Gibson ended that game with a home run, if I’m not mistaken. Next day he smashed a three-run bomb. Looking back, aside from Game One (“I’m gonna have dreams about someone beating me over the head and stealing all my money,” said Lasorda) all the other results were more than one run.… Read more

I’ve worked and lived all over the country. I’ve never met a Marlins fan. Ever. It’s a franchise imposed upon a constituency that does not want it. Read more

The Twins had more talent than the 1988 Dodgers and were also facing a worst-to-first team in the Atlanta Braves, so it was an equivalent matchup in theory. Read more

For my 16th birthday in 1989, Dad took me to Atlanta to see the Braves and the Dodgers. We had media passes. Hershiser pitched on the last day of the season. He wasn’t in the clubhouse because he went to church before the game. He threw 11 innings on the last day of the year, 169 pitches, to get his record back to… Read more

Whenever I talk to the guys at Sony I always mention this throwing motion. They have about a thousand in the throwing motions you can assign to a created player but not the maxline drive. I’ve been on them about it for at least six years. Read more

We could have a dayslong conversation about Dr. Mike Marshall. My pitcher in MLB The Show is a righthanded screwballer because of him. It’s just wacky, going “front door” on a right-handed hitter with that. The rara avis of pitchers. Read more

The way starting pitchers are used now, it could happen. I could see a guy stringing up 60 scoreless innings on a great stretch of 6 and 7 inning outings, with no shutout among them. I think Hatcher’s fluke of a streak, seven hits to open a World Series, will last longer. Read more

I’ll amend my original thought. The 1990 World Series would have been an upset if it was 4-1, 4-2 or 4-3 for the Reds, much less the sweep. So they’re the last true underdog shocker.

I guess I just saw their talent a little differently. The 1988 Dodgers had a truly hopeless infield (as hitters). The Reds had Sabo and… Read more

Actually, this is like the NC State/Villanova of the 1980s NCAA tournaments. Read more

I don’t discount that but you may be selling the Reds — who led their division wire to wire in 1990 — a little short. It was a huge upset. But in terms of hopelessness, the Reds had a shitload more going for them in 1990 than the Dodgers did in 1988. Read more

And don’t forget Alejandro Pena, who was the pitcher for whom Gibson pinch-hit. Three years later he threw the greatest changeup in postseason history:

Jeff Hamilton’s claim to fame is tearing up his arm as a position player brought in to pitch in a blowout.

Mike Davis was the guy on base when Gibson homered. Though the HR mooted it, his steal of second base was pretty important to that AB. Read more

It was kinda both. That team is the last true underdog to win it all in MLB. Read more