Word: starter
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Think about it: if you took all the pitchers from the expansion Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins and distributed them evenly among the other 26 teams, would the pitching be any better? The Rockies have only one pitcher with and ERA under 4.00 (David Nied). Florida's number-one starter is 40-year-old Charlie Hough...
Scary Fact Number Three: Mention the term "fifth starter" in front of most managers, and they'll laugh at you. Some of them might name a position player (though I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that player won't be Jose Canseco...
Other than the Atlanta Braves, whose fifth starter, Kent Mercker, threw a no-hitter in the first week of the season, no team seems to have credible fourth and fifth starters...
...Trotsky. He even boycottedbathing for six weeks to make a politicalstatement," Brooks recalls. "He walked into ourroom and said...`You two will be condemned by theRevolution...'He then pulled out a gun, aimed itat my head and pulled the trigger...It must havebeen a cap gun or a starter's pistol. Bill justkind of chuckled and shrugged...
Minding the net for Harvard was freshmen Kate Schutt, since last year's starter, Liz Williamson, decided to row for the crew team instead of getting pelted by lots of rubber balls...