Billy Beane has a quote in my favorite baseball book of all time, Moneyball, about the playoffs. He said “My job is to get us to the play-offs. What happens after that is fucking luck.” And it’s one hundred percent true. The Cubs went off at 6/5 to win this series. 6/5! They set their rotation based on the regular season. Ryan Dempster was the best at home so he gets to pitch game 1, but is Ryan Dempster the best? Of course not. Rich Harden is the best. Everyone knows this, pitch Rich Harden. Whatever happens in the regular season doesn’t matter once the playoffs start. The playoffs are 100 percent luck. Your only hope is to put the most talent on the field that you can and pray. Kosuke Fukudome starting in RF is not doing that. Ryan Dempster starting game 1 is not doing that. This isn’t an all star game where you reward the best results, in the playoffs you award the best talent. When you look at the Dodgers lineup in games 1 and 2 there’s a reason you don’t see Nomar Garciaparra, Juan Pierre and Jeff Kent, Joe Torre is putting his most talented team on the field. Lou Piniella hasn’t been doing this and it could cost him the series.
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