"I Am Nervous For The Playoffs" Thread

[C.C.]

First time in my lifetime that I'm not satisfied with just "Being there" in the playoffs. I'm 100% confident this team gets to the WS.

[XZero771679666304]

First time in my lifetime that I'm not satisfied with just "Being there" in the playoffs. I'm 100% confident this team gets to the WS.

 

I don't know how a Cubs fan can be 100% confident about anything positive happening, particularly in a crapshoot like the playoffs.

 

If you aren't a little bit nervous, you're either some sort of wonderful mechanical man or you're nuts.

[C.C.]

First time in my lifetime that I'm not satisfied with just "Being there" in the playoffs. I'm 100% confident this team gets to the WS.

 

I don't know how a Cubs fan can be 100% confident about anything positive happening, particularly in a crapshoot like the playoffs.

 

If you aren't a little bit nervous, you're either some sort of wonderful mechanical man or you're nuts.

 

Little of both...

 

You just have to figure it's has to happen sometime, might as well be with this team. I'm just feeling it this year...

[UMFan83]

When does a 3.34 ERA constitute as being a "playoff choker?" Maddux record is 11-14 with a 3.34 ERA in thirty-two games pitched (thirty as a starter) in the post-season. Given the fact that he pitched against the opposition's #1 or #2 starter, a 3.34 ERA is by no means a "playoff choker." He didn't get much offense..there's a big difference between the two.

 

As for Torre being outmanaged.. the Yankees had ZERO starting pitching the last three post-season appearances.. and were beaten by better teams in the 2001 and 2003 World Series.

 

Maddux had a 3.34 playoff ERA when he was routinely having seasons where his ERA was in the 2's. I'm not saying a 3.34 ERA is necessarily bad against improved playoff competition, but it doesn't scream of someone who "steps up when it matters". Plus he's like 45 now and not nearly the pitcher he was way back when. If the Cubs face Maddux, even in LA, we will rip him apart.

[Soul]

So I get up this morning and all I hear is "the Cubs are screwed because they drew the red-hot Dodgers" talk.

 

WTF?

[SouthSideRyan]

So the rotting corpse of Greg Maddux is something to fear but not Brett Myers or the not so rotting corpse of Jamie Moyer?

[Cynosure]

I'm not nervous at all about the NLDS, we're going to blow through that easily. And I'd rather face the Phils than the Brewers just because Sabathia is a lot scarier than Hamels or Myers. Plus, if the Brewers are hot, they're nearly unbeatable.

[Lefty]

It is entirely possible that in a week, everything that this whole season could have been for nothing. I am very nervous and excited for the playoffs to start.

 

Get in line.

[UMFan83]

How can anyone assume that the Cubs will blow through the NLDS? If anything, that is the hardest round to get past, being a short series. In a 7 game series, the better team has a better shot of winning.

[Cynosure]

How can anyone assume that the Cubs will blow through the NLDS? If anything, that is the hardest round to get past, being a short series. In a 7 game series, the better team has a better shot of winning.

 

Because I'm an optimist and the Dodgers are not that good. Manny is good and their pitching is good, the team collectively is not.

[CubinNY]

There isn't a team in the National League that worries me more than LA.

Good. You'll be happy when the Cubs sweep them out of the playoffs.

[Soul]

How can anyone assume that the Cubs will blow through the NLDS? If anything, that is the hardest round to get past, being a short series. In a 7 game series, the better team has a better shot of winning.

 

Because I'm an optimist and the Dodgers are not that good. Manny is good and their pitching is good, the team collectively is not.

 

The point is, in a short series, the better team doesn't always win. A case can be made, for example, that we weren't the better team in '03 in the NLDS. But because we won the pitching matchups with Prior & Wood, the Braves' # of regular season wins meant little, and they were an early exit.

 

I'm not saying that I'm shaking in my boots or anything, but the Dodgers are a tougher draw than the Mets would have been. We should still be able to take them.

[UMFan83]

I wish Lou could rearrange the playoff rotation after the fact. Several of the Dodgers hitters struggle against LHP, and having Ted Lilly could have been a big asset.

 

I would do

 

Dempster

Harden

Lilly

Zambrano

 

Lilly at Dodger Stadium because of the long ball threat. Zambrano gets a nice rest

[Exile on Waveland]

I'm nervous, but only because of the short series and I've seen the Cubs disappoint too many times. Otherwise, the Cubs are clearly a better team than the Dodgers and I expect to win in four, if not three.

[gflore34]

How can anyone assume that the Cubs will blow through the NLDS? If anything, that is the hardest round to get past, being a short series. In a 7 game series, the better team has a better shot of winning.

 

Because I'm an optimist and the Dodgers are not that good. Manny is good and their pitching is good, the team collectively is not.

 

The point is, in a short series, the better team doesn't always win. A case can be made, for example, that we weren't the better team in '03 in the NLDS. But because we won the pitching matchups with Prior & Wood, the Braves' # of regular season wins meant little, and they were an early exit.

 

I'm not saying that I'm shaking in my boots or anything, but the Dodgers are a tougher draw than the Mets would have been. We should still be able to take them.

 

Fortunately, this Dodger team has nothing resembling the Prior and Wood of '03 but, I agree, the better team doesn't always win a short series.