Cheers & Jeers: Josh Beckett saves MLB pitching with 20-win season
Cheers & Jeers: Josh Beckett saves MLB pitching with 20-win season
By Berry Tramel
Published: October 4, 2007
CHEERS
• To Josh Beckett of the Red Sox, who won 20 games this season. Until 2006, never had both leagues failed to produce a 20-game winner in the same season. But if not for Beckett, it would have happened again in 2007. San Diego's Jake Peavy led the National League with 19 wins.
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JEERS
• To Fox Sports Net, which selected the Texas-Iowa State mismatch for telecast on Oct. 13. OSU-Nebraska, a much better game, was not picked and will be on pay-per-view instead.
• To Bob Stoops' blown leads. The three biggest blown leads in OU history have come under the Stoops administration: 17 against Texas in 1999, 16 against Notre Dame in 1999 and now 17 against Colorado in 2007. Part of Stoops' problem is that he gets so many big leads. But Barry Switzer and Bud Wilkinson had their share of big leads and never once lost after leading by more than 15.
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