Have you read this post yet? If you have, then you know where I'm about to go. If you haven't, then head on over there for some background. After reading that Project '62 rant, which is right in line with my thinking of the last few years, I knew it was only a matter of time before my team would be haunted by the dreaded "pinch-count" mantra this year. Only I didn't know it would happen a mere two days later or in such an inexplicable fashion. I just got done watching the Dodgers-Marlins fiasco on my last day of the MLB Extra Innings Free Preview. The Dodgers sent Charlie Haeger to the mound for his first start of the season. Haeger throws the knuckle ball. It was delightful. Haeger struck out 12 batters -- TWELVE -- in six innings. He gave up just three hits. He walked four. In a lot of ways it was typical knuckle baller's outing -- two strikeout victims reached base when the ball got away from A.J. Ellis. In other ways it wasn't -- Haeger had...
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