Okay, One More - Chris Drury is From Connecticut, and Therefore Totally Awesome

BOULDER, Colorado -- From the site Firejoemorgan.com:

Williams emulates a Twinning formula
Sox GM realizes talent alone doesn't guarantee anything

Talent, as we all know from years of sports journalism dogma, is anathema to winning. Teams win in spite of talent. Talent creates egos, egos create selfishness, selfishness results in too many damn home runs.

Keep your talent. Give me guys who volunteer at soup kitchens. Then I'll have a baseball team.

He spent years watching, studying and even copying it, to the point where it won him a World Series in 2005.

The truth is finally out there: Ken Williams is copying the formula of the 1989 Trumbull, Connecticut World Champion Little League team. Expect a call, Chris Drury.

Even though he plays for the hated New York Rangers, I still like Chris Drury, and his brother Ted, too. And I, like every friggin' sportswriter in America who still can't stop talking about this crap, remember when Drury pitched that game to break the Taiwanese string of three straight victories (all those kids were, like, 17, anyway.) It is totally okay to mock the idea of Drury as a quintessential "winner." Yes, he won the LLWS; yes, he won the Hobey Baker in college; but he has not won anything since the Avalanche won the Stanley Cup in 2001, and has since played on some pretty bad (and some good) teams in Calgary and Buffalo.

He's a great player, but this "knowing how to win" is a bunch of bullshit that keeps getting rehashed by hacky, uninformed, unoriginal sportswriters. Some of the favorite old ropes on this site that pop up again and again in the vast wasteland that is sports journalism include: Darin Erstad was a punter in college, David Eckstein is small and hustly, Derek Jeter is another natural-born winner and therefore a "true Yankee," and home run hitters "clog up the basepaths."

And Trumbull sort of sucks, but whatever.