The Baltimore Orioles have all but rolled over and played dead against Boston this week. Last night they were plugging along with a 1-0 lead until the sixth inning, when Boston seemingly took control of the game. So in looking at the title of this morning’s article, I pose an interesting question about playing not-to-lose…
…which is a game that’s seemingly played in European soccer quite often. In round robin tournaments often times if both teams are advancing alreay the two coaches will wink at each other and and their teams will play fairly vanilla. What’s the point of trying to go all out and win when all you have to do is not lose?