Found September 23, 2009 on Fire Brand American League:
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Back in 2006, a game thread was posted at Fire Brand (link doesn't work, sorry) in which Julian Tavarez gave up a game-winning grand slam to Jason Kubel. Former Fire Brander Andrew Lipsett wanted Delcarmen in the game; I defended Taveras. Lipsett's point:MDC hasn't proven he can because he hasn't gotten the chance to. Tavarez hasn't proven he can handle it because he's been given many chances, and has shown himself to be grossly incompetent. In that scenario, you try the guy who hasn't proven he can, rather than the one who's rather spectacularly proven that he CAN'T. Put it this way: You're trying to get to the other side of a large brick wall. The method you've been trying involves running at it really fast and seeing if it breaks. Every time, you just wind up with a headache. Then someone hands you a trampoline; you don't know that it'll get the job done, but you also don't know that it won't. Would you rather keep ru...
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