A Great Greg Maddux Story
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1| Viva El Birdos found this 4/21/2008 on 6-4-2.blogspot.com [flag] |
In ESPN the Magazine :
But when Brad Penny and Maddux were teammates on the Dodgers, during the last two months of 2006, they had a conversation one day that led Penny to reach a stunning conclusion: This guy knows my stuff better than I do . It was eerie, really, how easily Maddux dissected Penny's repertoire and suggested ways to maximize it. Penny, figuring he'd take advantage of the ...
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rob neyer Q+A: the art of storytelling
Published 4/21/2008 by lboros at Viva El Birdos
... I think Greg Maddux might be somebody who could spin out some tales. There was even just one in which he appeared as a protagonist, where Brad Penny was the storyteller --- Penny said Maddux basically called his game for him from the dugout, and Penny threw 7 innings of 2-hit ball or something like that. The core of that story is about Maddux’s superior powers of observation --- his ability to read his opponents’ tendencies. I think observation is at the core of storytelling too; maybe I’m overanalyzing, but it seems like he could ...
