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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I don't care what age a man is, if he comes running at me with a fist in the air, I'm going to do something to stop him. Pedro was in a lose/lose situation there. If he does nothing, he gets his ass kicked by a 72 yr old man. If he hits Zimmer, he's the devil. He made the right decision given the circumstances
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Wrong.
The right decision would have been to step 4 inches to his left. Zimmer, who has had both knees replaced would have fallen on his face by himself. "If he does nothing, he gets his ass kicked by a 72 yr old man." If you actually believe this, you're crazier than Clemens.
And Harold Reynolds had it right in his analysis. Pedro hurt his team in more ways than giving up those runs. If you plunk a Yankee with Clemens on the mound, you automatically put every batter on the defensive. No one is aggressive because they know Clemens has more than one screw loose and can't wait to ring someone's bell. That's why Manny overreacted. He was looking to get hit and couldn't concentrate on the at bat. He was flinching at pitches on the outside part of the plate.
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