I'm not saying that numbers, or how you play the game (stress OBP, not average etc. etc.) aren't vital to success, but if you have one or two divisive players in the clubhouse and those players happen to be the stars, you're chances of winning go down the toilet.
-- Doug Then why did Reggie Jackson's Oakland A's - who famously hated each other so much they got into fistfights in the clubhouse - won the World Series? Or why did the famous "Tinkers to Evers to Chance" Cubs - who also hated each other - do exceptionally well? Or why the Orioles in 1998 said that they had the best clubhouse any of them could remember, and did not do so well. I would suggest the alternate. Teams that win develop good clubhouse chemistry, and teams that lose (sometimes) develop poor clubhouse chemistry. But it's the winning that causes the chemistry, not the other way around. Note that this is _only_ true for baseball, the most individual of team sports. It's clearly not true for football or basketball, for example. Gautam
