DALLAS — When thinking about teams trying to rally from 3-0 deficits to win playoff series, my mind always wanders first to the wisdom of Bobby Valentine, who was certainly full of it. In so many ways.
Not that Valentine ever accomplished the feat. It’s sort of like Pat Riley owning the trademark rights to the phrase “three-peat” which he uttered at a Lakers championship parade but never achieved. Anyway, I always go back to the 1999 playoffs when Valentine’s Mets trailed Atlanta 3-0 after three close, low-scoring games and how emphatic the one-time Rangers manager was that a baseball team was going to do this one day and it might as well be now.
That’s one thing Valentine could be. Loud and emphatic.
