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Originally Posted by sike
No. All I have been claiming is that IF the Rangers had made it a hard fought tooth and nail series swapping wins but coming up shot, that I imagine it would have weighed differently on him than the turnout we did witness in reality where the ranger bats whimpered into the night game after game. Which you are claiming is again and again is a senseless notion. Which I honestly find insulting. How would almost winning not weigh on your mind differently than getting there and completely whiffing.
He is leaving a team that didn't get enough Wins in the world series for a team that he rightly sees as an undeniable favorite with his addition.
I'm basing my opinion on the supposition that I have a certain degree of understand of the highly competitive mind. Maybe that does not compute with you for some reason, but that does not make a nonsensical notion.
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Because you're making it sound like the Rangers got swept in the first round of the playoffs. There is a tiny, tiny sliver of production between winning one game in the world series and winning three.
Simply making it to the world series meant the Rangers were *this* close. They very much did almost win. You keep using words like choke and whiff and embarrassed, and I just really think you're not looking at it correctly. That's basically where our difference of opinion comes.
If they had been swept by the Rays I would absolutely agree with your assessment. That would have been embarrassing. That's a whiff. That's a choke.
Losing four games out of five in the world series, in a relatively competitive manner, is not an embarrassment, is not a choke, is not a whiff, and I absolutely believe had zero negative impact on Lee's feelings on staying here.