I tend to the view of time as a river. If you could go back and change stuff, it would probably cause a few local ripples, but it tend to smooth itself out fairly quickly, rather than the whole \u201cbutterfly effect\u201d thing documented in classic SF story A Sound of Thunder. However, there are, perhaps, certain points where a small tweak could have an oversized effect. For example, if the security guard at the Watergate building in June 1972 had not noticed – twice! – duct-tape covering a lock, American history might be very different. Are there any similar moment in the history of the Arizona Diamondbacks?<\/p>\n
If you could change one moment in D-backs history, which one would it be?<\/p>\n
This can be at any level, from the molecular to the universal. For instance. 1999 NLDS Game 4. A Tony Womack error in the eighth let the Mets tie the game, and they went to win it (and the series) in ten innings. Womack catches that ball, and we could instead have had Randy Johnson starting Game 5. Things might have been very different for the best Arizona team in regular season history – the only one ever to win 100 games – instead of being largely forgotten. That\u2019s a for instance. But it could be undoing a trade that did or didn\u2019t happen, avoiding an injury, or even changing ownership. Tell us what you\u2019d change, and why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I tend to the view of time as a river. If you could go back and change stuff,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,75962,4314,19173,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-583295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks-discussion","11":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","12":"tag-az-snake-pit-community","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-diamondbacks","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116104338551421067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}