the700level.com found this article and I'm going to steal it. It's a great article by NBC sports about Chris Coste. It talks about his 12 years in the minors and how he almost called it quits as a player this past year, how happy he and his family was when they heard he made it to the majors, how he fought past getting no hits in his first 13 at bats to end up with a .328 average at the end of the year. I'll admit I was one of those people that booed him at around at bat number 12 with no hits. It looked stupid to have an old guy who couldn't hit take up a roster spot when a young player could be getting the opportunity. Coste fought past all of that though to basically take the starting catching job away from Mike Lebeirthal. Maybe it was because Lebeirthal was always hurt or maybe it's because Coste was the better player this year, I'll go with the latter. Well maybe some day there will be a nice movie about Coste and we'll be able to say we were there for that season, now only if the rest of the team had played their movie roles correctly and maybe they could have been in the postseason.
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