The Michigan Daily-Thursday, October 23, 1980-Page 11 THE SPORTING VIEWS t SHappiness is a championship for fussing, feuding Phils DEADLINE: r By SCOTT M. LEWIS The Oakland A's proved it during the early 1970's-you don't have to be in love with your teammates and manager to produce a champion- ship. Tuesday night at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, the Phillies added a chapter to this peculiar animosity-breeds-success story. Philadelphia, which during the past two decades has been ridden by in- ternal strife and constant bickering, surprised the baseball world by win- ning the World Series for the first time in its 97-year history. The triumph was surprising not primarily because it came at the ex- pense of the Kansas City Royals. The Royals, a blue-eyed, har- monious bunch, devastated the vaunted Yankees in the American League championship series and were favored to defeat an exhausted Phillie squad. It was surprising not because a couple of undistinguished young pit- chers named Marty Bystrom and Bob Walk happened to earn half of the Phils' wins, or because jour- neyman Del Unser emerged as one of the hitting heroes. Rather, thebultimate victory came as a shock because many of: the Phillies genuinely dislike each other. And in sports, divisiveness is supposed to go hand-in-hand with failure. Sure, all of the players were reveling in joy yesterday during the mammoth celebration held in down- town Philadelphia. When you win, it's easy to heap praise on your' teammates, andthe Phillies laid it on thick yesterday in front of half a million frenetic fans. But when things are going poorly,, as they were during the early and middle portions of the Phillies' season, personal dislikes and jealousies begin to surface. Lam- basting one's teammates and manager occurs a few times during the, baseball season, but in Philadelphia, griping and grumbling' were the rule, not the exception. To appreciate the degree of ten- sion which tore at the fabric of the Phillie organization, consider this: Two starting outfielders, Bake Mc- Bride and Garry Maddox, threatened to walk off therteam unless manager Dallas Green treated them with respect and un- derstanding. McBride went so far as to declare that if Green were to return as manager in 1981, he would be chasing fly balls elsewhere next spring. Under no condition would he play another season under Dallas Green. Green, the tall, taciturn manager who was brought down from the front office in August 1979 to serve as "interim" manager, responded to McBride's spouting off with charac- teristic indifference. He said he couldn't care less whether all 25 men hated his guts, so long as they per- formed well on the field. The Phillies vented their anger not only at their manager, but also at first baseman Pete Rose. Rose, the 39-year-old future Hall of Famer hit a poor (for him) .282, yet during the regular season he received more media attention than 24-game win- ner Steve Carlton and major league home run king Mike Schmidt. When the pennant and World Series were on the line, however, the Phillies rose' above the discord, disagreement, and petty jealousy. They did something no Philadelphia team had ever done-bring home a baseball championship. FOR UAC SUPERSAVING THANKSGIVING FLIGHTS TO NEW YORK & PHILADELPHIA RIDAI, OCTOBER 24th HURRY! LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE ,. For More Information, Inquire At UAC Ticket Central In The Michigan Union 763-1107 K I Pistons fall to Sixers, oss skein reaches 21 By MARK FISCHER and DOUG NEARY Special to the Daily PONTIAC-Basketball is not only a game of inches, but a game of feet as well, and it was Kent Benson's feet which got in the way of the Pistons' first season victory last night at the Silver- dome. With ten seconds left in the game and Detroit trailing 94-93, Kent Benson ribbled the ball-and the Pistons' hopes-off his foot and out of bounds. 4 JULIUS ERVING led the 76ers (4-2) to victgry with 19 second-half points over the scrappy Detroit defense, which for- ced 27 turnovers. The Pistons also hauled down 27 offensive rebounds, but shot only 35 percent from the field. Erving's missed shot with 40 seconds left gave Detroit forward Terry Taylor a chance to win the contest, but his 10 ot jumper with 25 seconds remaining caromed off the rim. But the Pistons' chances were kept alive when the ballhawking Ron Lee garnered the rebound. Detroit had the ball and called time out with 16 seconds left, setting the stage for Benson's boner./ AS PHILADELPHIA took the ball out to run out the clock, it seemed as if each of the 5,279 fans in attendance was screaming for the Pistons to foul one of the Sikers, but the players either wouldn't or couldn't hear them, and the clock-along with betroit's chance for its first victory-ticked away to nothing. Philly took a lead of 49-43 at the half, and increased the margin to 58-45 early in the third quarter behind Erving's eight points. Philaoelphia reeled off 11 of the first 13 points of the second half before the Pistons rallied to cut the deficit to 78-76 entering the final stanza. I 10 N w1 - E SMr . . --. . r m iz y t ACADEMICALLY ANXIOUS??? IS YOUR LIFE ALL WORK AND NO PLAY? ASSIGN- MENTS LATE? FEEL GUILTY WHEN NOT STUDY- ING? TENSE??? CAN'T RELAX? 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