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October 23, 2003
Prospectus Today
Game Four

by Joe Sheehan

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I'm sorry, but the better angels of my nature have been locked in the closet. Maybe they'll be back tomorrow.

Maybe not.

Dear Aaron Boone:

It was a home run, not diplomatic immunity.

Love,
Joe

Boone, whose Game Seven home run won the ALCS and sent the Yankees to the World Series, has been swinging at pitches he has no hope of hitting ever since then.

I looked it up, expecting to see that Boone has taken about four pitches in the World Series. It turns out that he'd actually let 25 baseballs go by in the first three games, just shy of half of the 51 pitches he'd seen. He's pushed counts to 3-2 in a number of at-bats, so it's hard to make the argument that he's not being patient enough.

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