Day 1 of camp, and already he's spouting off.
"I think we're going to win the World Series," Dempster said. "I really do. I wouldn't have worked as hard as I did and everybody worked as hard as they did to not believe that."
Great, self confidence is important. But, jeez, that's not the bet I'm placing, and a veteran player outta know better, right? The team has a chance, not a great chance, but a better chance than what he expects to do himself:
what does Dempster expect from himself?
"Two hundred innings," he said. "I was always taught that's all I can control. If you go out and log some innings, the rest will take care of itself."
OK, dude. You haven't thrown 200 innings since 2002, or 100 innings since 2003. That was so long ago, Mark Prior was still good. In the last four years, you've thrown just over 250 with six starts. Even if you can throw 200, do you really think we can afford to let you do that?
Ahh, the joys of Spring.
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For the sake of democracy, I have to admit that I voted twice.
That's OK, I'm in Chicago, so we expect living people to vote twice, dead people to only vote once (we have to draw the line somewhere)
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