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So let's start here: I don't buy it. I don't buy that a person with a beating heart and fully operational stomach and sweat glands in his palms could pitch his first World Series game and not feel nervous. Not at all? And this wasn't just any World Series game. This was Game 1 of the World Series, and this was against the New York Yankees, and this was at Yankee Stadium. Not nervous? Ridiculous. Inhuman. I don't buy it. Heck, I'm nervous writing this column.

And yet ... how can anyone doubt Cliff Lee? Did you see him out there Wednesday night, pitching Philadelphia to a 6-1 victory over the Yankees in Game 1 of the World Series? There isn't even a word for how he looked. It's like the opposite of nervous only bigger. Relaxed? Not a big enough word. Confident?...