[Wang] Wang Legitimate Cy Young Candidate

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Wang Legitimate Cy Young Candidate

    For a pitcher who was considered more project than prospect as recently
as eighteen months ago, Chien-Ming Wang has vaulted himself into a legitimate
position to contend for the American League Cy Young Award. Wang has pitched
brilliantly this entire season and came within one pitch to Ryan Zimmerman to
having a 14-3 record instead of 13-4. Add into that the game against
Baltimore in which he pitched in emergency relief and recorded a save, and
you have an extremely valuable commodity who does everything within his power
to help his team win.
    The "experts" around New York radio and print outlets openly scoffed at
Wang as recently as earlier this season; now, the honest ones are
backtracking on their comments and the recidivist historians are conveniently
forgetting or amending what they had originally said. With their
condescending attitudes, lack of knowledge and accountability, these people
continually opine about that which they know nothing as though they know
everything. Now, they have again been proven wrong with the continued stellar
performance of Chien-Ming Wang.
    It seems so long ago that in the middle of his rookie season, Wang went
on the disabled list with shoulder woes after feeling pain one morning and
the rumor mill was churning out stories as to the severity of the injury and
that it was likely that Wang would have surgery and be out until 2007. But,
he returned and returned well. Now, he's among the league leaders in wins and
has become, essentially, the Yankees starter number 1A along with Mike
Mussina.
    It is difficult to judge players that come from the Pacific rim and their
abilities to adjust to the majors. One may turn into Ichiro; one may turn
into Hideki Matsui; one may turn into Kaz Matsui; one may turn into Hideki
Irabu. And it was even more difficult to come up with a legitimate projection
on Wang because, while those other players were coming from the Japanese
League, Wang was coming from Taiwan, where the quality of the play is less
than that of Japan. That may be why it took Wang until he was 25 to reach the
big leagues and until 26 to truly blossom. But now, he's arrived. He throws
strikes, he's quietly determined and he has presence on the mound. (Carl
Pavano take note.)
    I'm just curious as to what those "experts" are going to say at the end
of the season if Wang wins 20 games. They'll probably conveniently forget the
negative comments upon his arrival. They  knew from their extensive
experience in scouting that he was eventually going to make it, right? At
least, that's what they'll try to lead people to believe. Massive egos and
infinitesimal knowledge---a perfect combination for sports talk radio.


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  老美也有人這樣想
  不過我們只要低調就好了



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※ 編輯: vvvbbb          來自: 61.230.16.35         (08/07 01:56)
推 heacoun:老美也認為莫再提事件讓14-3變13-4  Q_Q
推 alubazace:低調低調...
推 vvvbbb:Carl Pavano take note  XDDDDD
→ heacoun:Wang was coming from Taiwan,
→ heacoun:where the quality of the play is less than that of Jap
→ heacoun:只能默默同意...
推 sxxs:韓國消失了..哈哈哈
推 CCLu:Ya, and who is this genius?
推 HIPOP4EVER:hi CCLu
推 leeturtle:Pavano......
推 holymars:莫再提事件...