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Yeah, actually, pipe, it does make a difference whether Izzy finds himself or not. This team is better off when Izzy is pitching well and closing games. Period.
Hate on Izzy all you want. He's certainly used to it. It's been that way since he's been here. Through good times and bad (mostly good, if you care to look at the numbers), Cardinals fans have loved to get down on this guy. For a group of fans that prides itself on being "the best in baseball", I don't get it.
Do you think Izzy enjoys blowing these games? I guarantee you no one feels worse about it then he does. And it sure doesn't help matters when, as reported in the Post-Dispatch earlier in the week, he is in his own bullpen and some two-bit chump in the stands who jokingly calls himself a Cardinals fan yells at him to "just do your (expletive) job."
Izzy will get straightened out, and he'll be back to closing games for this team soon enough. And the team will be better for it.
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