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Originally Posted by shakedancer
Edhead, I guess because the Sox have tons more playoff experience than the Tribe, that means alot. Look what happened with Wang, no playoff experience, couldn't handle the pressure. We have a Cy Young candidate starting game one who is also a 7th game World Series winner . Schilling is a 2 time 7th game World Series winner. Your team is a green playoff team, that could hurt them as the pressure of this series will be more intense than the last.
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I don't think 1 world series appearance in almost 90 years is tons of playoff experience. I was getting ready to write something about you do have a good amount of experience in the ALCS, but I looked it up and this is only the 3rd trip this decade. And only 1 time did you win it. How much of the present team was there in 2004? I only count 3 impact players (Schilling, Ortiz, and Manny)
As I've said before game one CC v Beckett will be a fantastic game and the team winning that game takes a huge advantage in the series. I know in the opening game of the Yankees series CC came out wound up and was overthrowing, I don't think you see that this time.
The Tribe, though young appears to be handling the pressure very well, they are a loose team that importantly is playing as a team.
We will know a lot more about this series in 24 hours.