MLB: Most Interesting Man in Baseball – Part III
By Jim Turvey
3 Sean Doolittle vs. 7 Ichiro Suzuki
Don’t worry, this is not going to be another pseudo-psychology breakdown like our last semifinal. In fact, we’ll keep this one much briefer for one main reason: It’s not actually that close of a matchup.
I’ve made this analogy when I have done previous baseball-related brackets, but it applies once again. You know how in the NCAA tournament we always get extremely excited when the lower seeds (higher seeds? I never know which way to go with this) pull off amazing early-round upsets. We all love when the George Masons of the world make their historic runs. However, when they actually end up in the Final Four, and have to play against a powerhouse like Florida, it becomes very evident that these two teams aren’t really on the same playing field.
That’s the story here. Doolittle is a cool and progressive dude who is one of the best Twitter follows in baseball. Ichiro is a one-name demigod who has more mythology surrounding him than Heracles. Ichiro tosses around Doolittle in this matchup like X-23 tosses around gas station clerks.
We have our final.