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Always Trust Your Pessimism

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In the midst of generally disastrous picks — I had at least remembered being more reluctant about picking Cleveland than I was — was an actual insight:

I initially thought that letting Teixera go to the Yankees, while perhaps the right long-term decision, handed the division to a team that otherwise just wouldn’t have had the offense.

Of course, having seen that I for some reason picked the Red Sox anyway. I’m not sure why, but was that ever stupid. (And no whining about the Yankee payroll. Boston certainly make enough money to sign him; they chose some cheap gambles on ancient pitchers coming off shoulder surgery and once-promising outfielders who effectively haven’t played in three years instead. They lost.)

…Well, and at least I didn’t jump on the bandwagon of this year’s inexplicable trendy pick to contend Kansas City

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