I'd like a repeat of the 1964 World Series with the same result. That year's fillie manager, gene mauch, wore uniform number 4, which is 4 points higher than his IQ. Mauch pitched his two aces, chris short and jim bunning, on short rest over the last two weeks of the season and blew a 6 1/2 game lead. I got to meet short at a card show and he said that many members of the '64 fillies hold mauch responsible for the colapse. He said that both he and bunning, by the end of the season, were complaining that their arms were ready to fall off and the fillies would have not won a post season game (also, with the right combination of events on the last day of the season, there would have been a three way tie for first place involving the Cardinals, Reds and fillies).
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