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Originally Posted by jtur88
Palm Beach Gardens is not the kind of place where I expect "natives" to regard somebody as a home-town boy.
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Why not?
My wife and I are native New Yorkers. I'm from Queens [Astoria, East Elmhurst/Jackson Heights, Flushing, East Northport], my wife born in the Bronx.
We moved to Palm Beach Gardens in 1989, a town that had already been started by huge landowner John D. MacArthur some years before. We selected PBG, having shopped around for a few years before my retirement. Chris Volstad is a native son, just 21 years old.
Home is where the heart is.
As to Chris getting yanked at 8 2/3 innings, the broadcasters made it clear that the Marlins' manager was both trying to conserve his 21 year-old while giving him every opportunity to rack up a CG and/or shutout.
When Volstad lost the shutout AND passed 100 pitches, he opted to go the conservation route.