Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
Mr. Bernstein, holding up a headline that reads "Kane Elected" and dropping it begrudgingly: "I'm afraid we've got no choice."
Typesetter: "That one?"
Bernstein, dejectedly: "That one." (Headline reads: "Charles Foster Kane defeated" above an even larger "Fraud at Polls")
—Citizen "Bank Park" Kane
I have to report that the results of the Primey awards were released and my reliever series came in dead last in both of the categories in which it was eligible.
However, a perhaps more gratifying acknowledgement of the reliever series was made by Chris DeRosa subbing over at Bronx Banter. He took a look at Mariano Rivera's career and used some of the methods that I came up with to do so. I hope the series does help to engender more scholarly examination of the role and importance of the reliever (starting with Rich Gossage in the Hall).
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