PHOENIX -- BEFORE GAME 3 of the American League Championship Series, former President George W. Bush roamed around the Texas Rangers' clubhouse shaking hands and talking ball. After hobnobbing for a bit, Bush started to meander toward the locker of that day's starting pitcher.
Max Scherzer sat in his chair, staring straight ahead, headphones covering his ears. Sixteen years into his Hall of Fame career, Scherzer's arm no longer produces the explosive pitches that won him three Cy Young Awards. His intensity, though, has suffered no such atrophy. If anything, it has grown to compensate for what he might lack physically.