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OzRob's avatar

It's difficult to blame Romano as it's been so long since he blew a save, but man, at this stage in the season, that hurt! Seattle's remaining schedule is a problem.

The 2015 season, or at least from the trade deadline on, was like no other. Even in Australia, watching the games was unreal. The fans were insane - hungry and rabid. Good call on the doco....there's something there right down to the 2nd and 3rd and no out and bad calls and Josh Donaldson to end the year.

Can I make a comment (and I don't expect an answer because it involves your former employer), but maybe other subscribers can resonate with this. I signed up to The Athletic to follow you and John Lott and was so happy I did. Fantastic journalism everywhere - it was like reading Sports Illustrated from the 70s and 80s. But over time it feels like it's become pedestrian, mostly game updates. Kaitlyn does a great job for the Jays and Ken Rosenthal is great, but overall there's not much to keep me there when I can read your stuff, NIck's and the rest of the Sportsnet crew (who are all excellent). Any other readers feel the same?

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Argos's avatar

I was at Sunday's game, and watching the weird infield-in shift behind Romano with the bases loaded, I said "this is not the time to shift, a roller to the left side plates two, instead of netting a double play", and sure enough - that's exactly what happened. Easy double play turned into runs scored. With a standard alignment in that scenario, we win the game. I must be some kind of baseball genius, right? ;)

But really - I think Schneider lost that game with that bad shift as much as Romano's pitching. That was a bad shift at the wrong time. Wasn't the time to play the odds. It was the time to - almost literally - cover all your bases, and try for the best-case outcome and avoid the worst-case outcome.

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