Found November 04, 2009 on
Yankees 2000:
I'll never understand the sports media's obsession with premature postmortems. A team falls behind 3-1 in a series and all of a sudden they're dead and buried.Now, I appreciate that very few teams have ever overcome a 3-1 deficit in a World Series (or League Championship Series for that matter). And I understand that the majority of World Series teams are very difficult to beat three games in a row.But to my mind, a team down 3-1 is only one win away from making it anyone's series again, as the Phillies did with a win in Game 5. In drawing it to 3-2, the Phils are in a position now where they are one win away from an even series and all the momentum at their backs.Don't get me wrong, any team that takes a 3-1 series lead is the clear favorite to win that series. But when I see articles like Gene Wojciechowski's the other day (subtitle: "New York is turning a potential classic into a ho-hum romp toward a 27th title"), I have to wonder where the sport...
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