Clippers didn't complain enough? (File under: Tanking)
- From: RMJon23 <rmjon23@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Apr 2007 01:11:24 -0700
[Dear absnllers: I thought this was kinda funny, esp in light of GSW
going up 3-1 over DAL. Okay, Coach Dunleavy: you get a lotto pick, but
at least make it look good by bitterly complaining Avery J rested his
guys! And does anyone here think DAL really wanted GSW and not the
Clips? Rich jit... - rmjon23]
There's no tanking in baseball
John Shea
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Baseball is different from other sports, reason No. 847:
The Warriors beat the Mavericks in their penultimate regular-season
game, and the Clippers didn't go ballistic that Mavericks coach Avery
Johnson rested his top players and played his subs.
The game's outcome didn't matter to Johnson's team, which had a secure
playoff spot, but it mattered to the Clippers, the team that was
playing Phoenix that night while battling the Warriors for a final
playoff spot.
As it was, the Warriors got in. The Clippers didn't. And where were
all those complaints from L.A.?
If this happened in baseball, a cloud of venom would emerge from the
clubhouse of the team that got jobbed, and the commissioner would be
encouraged to act.
Imagine if the AL East came down to the final weekend. Both the
Yankees and Red Sox had to win their final games to win the division.
For the sake of argument, the Yankees were playing the Tigers' A team
while the Red Sox were facing a White Sox lineup of prospects without
Jermaine Dye or Paul Konerko or Jim Thome.
Joe Torre would have a fit and call out Ozzie Guillen for not adhering
to baseball etiquette. The unwritten rule is, field a representative
team against a playoff contender because that's what's fair to the
competing teams in the hunt.
This is all we heard from Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy: "Obviously
Phoenix played their guys, so it tells you (the Mavericks) probably
prefer to play Golden State than us. That's what it comes down to."
Actually, it was more than that. It was the Clippers failing to kick
up a stink and challenge the Mavericks.
Baseball gets criticized for a lot of good reasons, but you don't
usually see a team tanking it and getting away with it.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/29/SPG2OPHC9G1.DTL
This article appeared on page C - 6 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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