No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

He was selected MVP of the series. 03 ERA. Hershiser stunned the poker world by making the quarterfinals defeating 2006 event champion Ted Forrest Allen Cunningham and Freddy Deeb—players who had won a total of 12 World Series of Poker bracelets heading into the event.

Orel Leonard Hershiser IV (born September 16 1958) is an American former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. Hershiser was a three-time All-Star and won the Gold Glove Cy Young Award NLCS MVP and World Series MVP with the Dodgers in 1988.