RIP, Darren Daulton

I was rooting for the Phillies in the '93 WS. Sports writers are describing the team as "rag-tag." The only thing I thought was rag-tag was their pitching, particularly relief. And Daulton handled them masterfully.


There were some seedier sides to that '93 campaign and its leading men, but when it came to the games themselves, a fan couldn't have asked for anything more. (Other than, maybe, a better rested Wild Thing in Game 6.)

The Philadelphia Inquirer's obit:

http://www.philly.com/philly/s...


Same awful cancer John McCain is suffering from. 4 years is actually quite a remarkable period of survival for glioblastoma- 2-3x longer than normal.




wharfrat said:

Sports writers are describing the team as "rag-tag." The only thing I thought was rag-tag was their pitching, particularly relief.

Rag-tag, probably, in the way the team was pieced together from castoffs (Jim Eisenreich, Pete Incaviglia, Mariano Duncan, Milt Thompson) and other stray parts (Kevin Stocker). And there was a lot of platooning and other lineup switching through the season.


There was a decent amount of steriods on that team (as with most teams in the 90s).

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2009/06/68493097/1#.WYtRDlWGOUk



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