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Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne has stuck by his decision to initiate a mid-season overhaul of? the teams technical department, which saw James Allison leave in August. Raven Greene Super Bowl Jersey .Following a series of high-level crisis meetings chaired by Marchionne, Ferrari parted ways with technical director Allison and promoted Mattia Binotto from the teams engine department as his replacement. In a season where the famous Italian marque failed to secure a single victory, Binotto set about reorganising the technical departments at Maranello and Marchionne is confident the changes will yield results in 2017.We have restructured and I prefer to look to the future in a different way, he said at Ferraris traditional Christmas lunch. I dont regret the choices made, they were well thought out, so theres no need to change ideas.There are still many things missing, but the team is the team and it was put in place over a period of years and were not about to change it now. Our working practice is already different to what it was back in August, which is when Mattia Binotto took over the reins. The organizational change was also partly made to bring some calm. Put in the work and the results will come.Binotto said the restructure has improved the teams ability to react to issues and is confident Ferrari can deliver a competitive car under the new 2017 regulations.There are so many changes to the rules relating to aerodynamics. We will see cars that are much quicker through the corners, under acceleration and in braking. There is nothing to say that we here in Maranello cannot build such a car...Its just a matter of time. What we lacked on occasions this year was the ability to react quickly. We must be able to introduce new solutions before the others do. Mason Crosby Super Bowl Jersey . Carey Price didnt, but he still came out on top against one of his rivals for the No. 1 job at the Sochi Games. The Anahim Lake, B.C., native was stellar in making 39 saves in his home province and Lars Eller got credit for a bizarre short-handed winner as the Canadiens defeated the Canucks 4-1. ZaDarius Smith Super Bowl Jersey .com) - The Chicago Blackhawks aim for their third three-game winning streak of the season when they host the struggling Edmonton Oilers in Sundays battle at the United Center. http:///...king-packers-jersey/ . -- Washington Redskins tight end Fred Davis was charged Thursday with driving while intoxicated, a day after he was suspended for an NFL substance-abuse policy violation. SAN FRANCISCO -- If only they could all be like Madison Bumgarner this time of year. And by they, you know who we mean.David Price, Max Scherzer, Rick Porcello, Yu Darvish, Cole Hamels and Rich Hill are a combined 0-6 in this fascinating postseason -- after going 93-35 during the regular season. Clayton Kershaw won for just the second time in his past eight postseason starts, but he made it through only five ho-hum innings. And were not even going to get into Jeff Samardzija and Colby Lewis.Weve always looked at October as that month when the aces take over. The way Sanford B. Koufax did. The way P. Robert Gibson did. The way John Smoltz and Curt Schilling and Jack Morris did. The way even Josh Beckett did.But maybe we dont live in a world where thats as easy to accomplish anymore. Maybe theres too much attention, too much pressure, too much information. Maybe weve set the bar too high -- because what weve always expected of The Aces is not?what theyve been delivering.Now if youve watched MadBum work his magic -- and you can watch Bumgarner again Monday night, in a riveting National League Division Series Game 3 mano a mano with Jake Arrieta at AT&T Park -- you might wonder what the heck were even talking about. But look around at the rest of the sport and youll find something incredible.Twelve active pitchers have won a Cy Young Award and pitched in the postseason over the course of their careers. Just five of them even have a winning postseason record. Kershaw is 3-6 with a 4.65 October ERA. Price is 2-8, 5.54 -- and 0-8 as a starting pitcher.How can this be possible? It feels like a phenomenon that defies explanation. So naturally, we went looking to find one anyway. And heres what we learned: Its complicated.Its not a blanket statement, said Smoltz, a man who went 15-4 with a 2.67 ERA in his postseason career, with more postseason strikeouts (199) than any pitcher in history. There are different reasons.Those reasons can be found inside the heads of the men on the mound -- not to mention inside their hearts, inside their deliveries, inside their own unique set of circumstances. Sometimes, actually, its all of the above. But lets start with a fact that holds true for everyone:October baseball is different. Every element involved in it is different.Everythings a rally in the postseason, Smoltz said. Umpires have every pressure and detail, and all the eyes are on them. Strike zones get a little bit interesting. Hitters dont take pitches or at-bats off like they do during the regular season. Theres a lot that goes into that bucket. But the bottom line is, if youre mentally not ready for that moment, your success rate wont be as good.Smoltz was a man who fed off those moments. Even now, he misses them so much. He still finds himself saying, I loved it. I wish there was more of it. But when he looks at some of the men who take the mound in these games nowadays, he says, Some people in our game dont quite grasp that like they should.But even if you agree, does it make any sense that pitchers of the stature of Kershaw and Price wouldnt be mentally ready for the biggest games of their lives? Think of all theyve accomplished. Think of how mentally strong theyve had to be just to reach this standing in the game.So can this really all be in their heads? One longtime pitching coach doesnt think so.Take a look at the deliveries of Kershaw and Price -- versus Bumgarners, he said. Quick jerk versus easy, fluid. Most times, that [delivery reflects] their personality as well.So what this coach is saying is that both Kershaw and Price have a delivery that might not be made to order for this time of year -- because that voice in their head, that motor in their veins and that thumping in their heart are driving them to rush, to lurch, to go faster in games where nothing is more important than the ability to stay slow and under control. In otther words, their personality just might be overriding their delivery. Marcedes Lewis Super Bowl Jersey. It makes it harder to repeat, this pitching coach said. Adrenaline is the hardest thing to control in sport. ... I watch them, and I see them try to go to another gear way more often than normal.One American League executive said he believes thats an especially big problem in Prices case. Hes so amped up to do something special in these moments, he has trouble slowing down the game when he needs to most.Thats what I would see from afar, too, Smoltz said, without knowing anything other than hes very passionate. Look, hes a slow worker, very methodical, pitches 230 innings. Hes your prototypical front-line guy. But come postseason, there is a capacity to maybe care too much and want to do too well and not slow the game down.In Kershaws case, said an National League exec, it has never been about stuff. It has been that he sped up as things got rolling in a bad way. Anyone who has seen Kershaw up close knows hes motivated to be great, and to lift up his team. But the same people also wonder whether all that caring has taken a toll -- especially at times like these. And Smoltz wonders himself.Clayton Kershaw has basically pitched a playoff game in every single game for the last three years, Smoltz said, because every single regular-season game has put him at a level where he doesnt give up anything. So imagine being Clayton Kershaw, and if you give up three runs in a game, people are like, Whats wrong? So hes put up a standard that is unprecedented.Because of that, when he gets to the end of the year, I would argue that hes a little more mentally fried than most. So now, when that time comes and youre trying to carry your ball club, its not like hes just getting crushed. Its one or two innings that have defined him -- against one team.That team, of course, is the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat him four times in back-to-back Octobers (in 2013 and 14), scoring 19 runs off him in 22 ? innings. In between, all the other teams in baseball beat him three?times in the entire regular 2014 season, when he was busy going 21-3 with a 1.77 ERA.A number of scouts and executives said theyre convinced that Kershaw tipped pitches out of the stretch in those games, especially against left-handed hitters. And the Cardinals were all over that. Take away those four losses to St. Louis, and in his five other postseason starts since 2013, Kershaw has gone 3-1 with a 2.73 ERA. His only loss was to the New York Mets last October, in a game in which he still struck out 11 and gave up just four hits.Nevertheless, it feels as if there is a quality in Bumgarner that no one else in this sport can match right now. And even the manager of the team that has to face him Monday cant help but admire it. On Sunday, Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon unabashedly compared Bumgarner to the likes of Gibson and Koufax. And Maddon wasnt only talking about the quality of those pitches exploding out of Bumgarners left arm.Its not just purely his stuff, Maddon said. Its his competitive nature. I think thats what gets lost in this a lot, with what we do. Everybodys always analyzing numbers and pitches and how he does this and spin rotation and whatever. This guy competes. Thats what sets him apart. Its not that his stuff is that special. Its really good. But how he competes is what sets him apart.Bumgarners postseason success is so unique among this generation. He really should start bottling cases of MadBums Miracle October Elixir -- hed make more money than Mark Zuckerberg. But first, he has another postseason baseball game to pitch, a reputation to uphold and one more heart-thumping October evening to remind the world of what aces used to look like this time of year. ' ' '