All season, I heard how great the Yankees were because guys like Jeter and Posada brought "intangibles" that helped them win. Now, I hear analysts trying to move these intangibles to guys like Scutaro from the A's and multiple players from the Cardinals.
My feeling is that teams win in the playoffs less because of intangibles, and more because they get good pitching and hitting. But maybe that's just me.
Isn't there anything better for announcers to discuss?
2006-10-10 05:21:20 · 4 answers · asked by Craig S 7 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Original - I explain Tom Brady's 3 Super Bowl rings by the fact that he's a great QB. Marino had the arm, but he didn't have the decision-making skills of Brady. He also didn't have a running back for many years, but that's another issue.
2006-10-10 05:36:30 · update #1
Yeah, I'm tired of hearing about it. Stats are the only way to prove how good a player is. Numbers don't lie, and intangibles can't be measured.
2006-10-10 06:04:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the yankees also had a lot more talent. but the tigers had a lot more intangibles than the yankees. mainly jim leyland an pudge rodriguez. they also had a pretty good belief that they would beat the yankees and they did. if i asked anybody at the beginning of the season based on the yankees lineup if the tigers could beat them in a playoff series everybody would have laughed at me. you have to understand what intangibles are. intangibles are some of the things you dont coach. that arent naturally ability. how do you explain how tom brady has 3 superbowl rings and dan marino has none? tom brady is no where near as great as marino and doesnt have any where near the arm strength marino had. but brady is a better game manager and he always won when the team needed him. he's probably a better field general. he didnt have to throw for a lot of yards or touchdowns to win games. if you ask marino if he would rather have all of those passing records or adam vinatieri what do you think he would chose?
2006-10-10 05:29:44 · answer #2 · answered by originalitybygeorge 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you quantify clutch at bats? A late game walk to load the bases is a nothing, or is it an intangible, or is it just a walk?
Perfect example is Roberts walking, stealing second, scoring the tying run against the Yankees a couple of years ago. The walk isn't an at bat, but without him on second the Red Sox could have never won the World Series some days later. How about the 12 pitch out, running up the pitchers pitch count early, making the pitcher work harder for one out, potentially tiring him out for later in the game, is that an intangible?
2006-10-10 07:36:16 · answer #3 · answered by vertical732 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose you'd have to put yourself in the shoes of an announcer and/or the pre production crew that assembles content for the broadcast. Not only do they bear the responsibility to the viewer to present the game between the lines but offer up what they may consider to be information (or speculation) that most viewers either don't know or aren't aware of.
Until anyone personally sits in any one of the hot seats within the production crew, they are merely an armchair participant. It is obvious that it's much easier to sit back and critique somebody else's work than it is to create the work itself.
Having said that, it's also obvious that some networks, announcers and production teams are better than others.
2006-10-10 06:41:18 · answer #4 · answered by -:¦:-SKY-:¦:- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋