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Except for these things:
1) The previous (Indians) series was much, much tougher than it should have been (outscored 16-26)
2) Piniella's bitterness about the Yankee rotation (he acknowledged the Yankees had the better team)
3) The M's won 10 of their final 12 after Sept. 11 -- they scored 88 runs in their last 12 games, but then got brutally locked down in 7 of 10 postseason games
4) The scouting factor, such as Soriano's HR off Sasaki on the 2-0 count
Except for that, yeah. :- )
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The 2001 M's aren't the best example of "soft RBI." More important there, IMHO, was the idea of "25 pretty good players" rampaging through the long schedule and then not being able to focus their postseason innings into 6-8 superstars.
:: shrug ::