On Feb 10, 3:09=A0pm, "Bill Kawalec" <billkawa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> the more words it takes to "explain" something, the less likely it is to
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> I never read email at the Yahoo address!"McBain"
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> On Feb 10, 11:40 am, snapp44 <snapp44_mem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article
> > <c91e461f-f289-4ce2-b5a0-29080e571...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > McBain says...
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> > >On Feb 10, 4:50=3DA0am, "Bill Kawalec" <billkawa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> tell ya what; I lost interest as soon as I saw that line in the
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> > >> believeing that team chemistry being a myth...
> > >> yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> > >Well, given a choice between a team with lots of talent or lots of
> > >chemistry, I'll take talent.
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> > >If you can get both, thats fine. But I've never seen friend****p win a
> > >baseball game. How does the second baseman liking the right fielder
> > >make them physically better players?
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> > As in any workplace environment, performance can be effected
> > by the comfortability factor and external pressure. (Rasheed
> > Wallace playing in ****tland - No Chemistry/Rasheed Wallace
> > playing in Detroit - Chemistry and Champion****p).
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> Do you think ****tland was as good as those Detroit teams?
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> I understand there is a psychological aspect to the game. =A0I also
> understand that there have been teams that hated each other and have
> been very successful. =A0A look at baseball in the seventies is a good
> place to start.
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> Chemistry is heralded when a team wins and missed when a team loses.
> Good chemistry is rarely cited on a bad team unless that team appears
> to be playing over their heads. =A0Then its the chemistry that has made
> them good, as if this ability didn't exist in the players before they
> all landed on the same team.
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> Its easy to blame lack of chemistry when a team does poorly because
> they look and speak poorly when they're not playing well. =A0Baseball
> writers use it all the time because you can't say a team stinks every
> day. =A0That gets boring and doesn't sell papers.
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> Success breeds chemistry and lack of success breeds bad chemistry.
> You can certainly have some bad apples in the bunch and that can cause
> some problems. =A0But the talent usually overcomes it.
If you don't make an argument, one has to assume you can't.
I've states my case why I don't think chemistry has a major impact on
wins and losses. You want to counter that with any ideas?
You can just tell me I'm wrong but that won't win you many debates.
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