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Harv’s Diner
It Is What It Is Harv’ s Diner SPORTS
immature and selfish on the base paths,
THE BREAKFAST PLACE
By Peter Collins leading to easy outs. Then to top it all T HE B R E A K F A S T P L A C E WORD
off, Manager Schneider pulls Berrios SEARCH
in the most critical game of the year brings you
in the fourth inning. Berrios had the Famous Basketball Players
misfortune of allowing a walk to start
hen we talk about the biggest
Wdisappointments in the Canadi- off the fourth inning in the deciding A Y E Q W I O C E G R O E G L U A P S W G
game two of the playoff series. That’s
an sports world in 2023, the Blue Jays A N T H O N Y D A V I S N G T L N H E N G
after he had a dominant first three
quick exit from this year’s playoffs A O S F K O B E B R Y A N T R W A D N E N
will surely top the list. They were a innings, allowing no runs and striking U N Y I P G L S G F M T A Y C Q C L O D I
out five Minnesota batters. They
frustrating team to watch all season, N E X O G B G A R N L E V T U K N P L R W
with a talented line up that failed brought in Kikuchi who had a great I A Z N F N V K R E I K L I O D U R A A E
regular season starting thirty-two
repeatedly to score runs at critical
games in 2023. Yes, that’s right, he F L N C C F I W N R K V L O B X D H M H K
points in the ball game. They were F L X A H D J Z E S Y L R O A G M X L S C
the second worst team in the MLB, started thirty-two games and relieved
in none. Great strategy by the brilliant I E M J Z A R O R G E B A I N N I P R E I
in leaving runners on base, an aver-
age of over seven per game. Other stat heads that work for the Jays and R N A C O O R A W O T M I W E Z T N A M R
by the aforementioned Schneider.
stats showed that they are reluctant to G I G K L H R L N S P C A R A I O H K A T
Analytics rule the game of baseball,
steal bases, and that they get caught E V I Q O V N E E O E S H J D B R B O J A
frequently when they do try to steal. and some Harvard grad sitting in their K E C B H R A W D S E D P R N J M Y A N P
parents’ furnished basement decides
Their poor metrics also conclude that A R J M M L L N A R B L A A I O E E K L Y
they are one of the worst teams when that bringing in a lefty pitcher who L S O B P L Q K U L A A I W T S R K K T L
hasn’t relieved in a game all year, is
it comes to grounding into double
a better option than letting a dominant B O H G E B C D N Q L M R H E S P B X T D
plays. With a line up that includes P N N S R A Y A L L E N E K W N I A E J O
Guerrero, Bichette, Springer, Varsho, Berrios continue his performance.
Perhaps the time has come to let B T S T E P H C U R R Y Y D L A A R U L C
and Chapman, these kinds of results
are unacceptable. GM Ross Atkins go, part ways with I U O R E L L I M E I G G E R E K Y K L K
Manager Schneider, and find someone R U N T N A R U D N I V E K T R Y I W I S
The playoffs certainly confirmed to push Guererro to perform up to the
their regular season woes with R S X F M I C H A E L J O R D A N H P D G
standards he’s capable of. Oh well,
Guerrero and Bichette looking there is always the Leafs! ALLEN IVERSON KARL MALONE MAGIC JOHNSON
ANTHONY DAVIS KAWHI LEONARD MICHAEL JORDAN
Heads up Hockey BLAKE GRIFFIN KEMBA WALKER PATRICK EWING
CARMELO ANTHONY KEVIN DURANT PAUL GEORGE
CHARLES BARKLEY KOBE BRYANT RAY ALLEN
the other player
is positioning CHRIS PAUL KRISTAPS PORZINGIS REGGIE MILLER
their stick and be DEMAR DEROZAN KYRIE IRVING RUSSELL WESTBROOK
able to get stick DWYANE WADE LARRY BIRD SHAQUILLE ONEAL
With Coach on stick or puck JAMES HARDEN LEBRON JAMES STEPH CURRY
Grant Cooper
first. A trick is to JOHN WALL LONZO BALL TIM DUNCAN
properly time the puck-drop and
to get body position at the circle Harv’s Diner
by swinging your body around the
H ello Everyone, puck to box out the other player. THE BREAKFAST PLACE
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