So I'm reading Ken Rosenthal's Dodgers piece from earlier this week, entitled "Happy clubhouse is key to Dodgers' success". Robothal falls back upon the dubious thesis that "chemistry creates winning," a hypothesis which has little factual basis, and many argue strikes the causal relationship the wrong direction. Maybe winning creates chemistry instead. Chemistry, in fact, is so ephemeral and intangible, that one could link clubhouse chemistry to any winning environment, just as easily as one could correlate lack of clubhouse camaraderie with a losing environment.
In reading the article, one couldn't help but compare how easily the piece could have been written in Bizarro-Dodger World.
Writes Robothal:
To understand just how much the Dodgers' chemistry has improved, consider the friendship between third baseman Casey Blake and center fielder Matt Kemp.
Blake, 35, hails from Indianola, Iowa. Kemp, 24, is from Midwest City, Oklahoma.
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Original Story:
http://www.sonsofstevegarvey.com/2009...
Original Story:
http://www.sonsofstevegarvey.com/2009...
