Sammy Sofa

This seems like a...questionable example to end with.

It's like you don't know how playoff baseball works. The Indians last year went 2, 2, 4, 1, 3 in the ALCS and 6, 1, 1, 7, 2, 3 in the WS before Game 7. So two good offensive games out of 11. We had a terrible series against the Mets in 2015. They also had 4 very good pitchers going. Those guys shut down a lot of teams. Last year we had two bad games against Kershaw and Hill but in the other 4 games they scored 8, 10, 8 and 5. Giants series they scored 1, 5, 5 and 6. WS was 0, 5, 0, 2, 3, 9, 8. Two bad games against Kluber and an inexplicably bad game against Tomlin. This year they got Strasburg twice, Scherzer, Kershaw twice, Hill, Darvish and Wood. When the worst starter you face is Gio Gonzalez, you faced a tough slate. These things happen. Sometimes Kershaw shuts you out and sometimes you light him up for 5 runs to advance to the WS. I completely understand the random nature of baseball and the crapshoot of the playoffs. But I'm open minded to the fact that there might be ways to improve performance in the playoffs- high pressure situations against better pitchers. I don't completely discount the possibility that "clutch" hitting may exist and certain players might have better success through a better approach or better coaching. Sure. It's easy to throw up your arms, point to all the runs scored against crap pitchers in 13-1 regular season games and say oh well. horsefeathers happens. We were just unlucky. But I hope the team doesn't feel that way. I want them to try and figure out how to get better. But seriously; you are are longing for better coaching in regards to nigh-uncoachable things like "clutch hitting."

The team will live and die by how its best hitters (and Baez) do? HOLY horsefeathers, YOU CRACKED THE horsefeathering CODE. Way to take the post out of context and make a stupid inflammatory statement. Good one. You wonder why a lot of people think this board is full of horsefeathers. Ah-HAH!!! Only, like, 60 people even know this place exists at this point, so IN YOUR FACE WITH A RUBBER MACE.

he kind of sucks but i can't put him on matheny's level just yet Oh, I wasn't talking about his baseball decisions at all.

The team will live and die by how its best hitters (and Baez) do? HOLY horsefeathers, YOU CRACKED THE horsefeathering CODE.

Did everyone asking about a leadoff hitter lead off their question with a hearty, "D'UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR?"

Look, Aramis had very, very, very important poultry-based businesses to get back to, alright?!?

I first read that as “oldcoot.com” which surprisingly is not filled with pictures of grandma lady squares Lemon (party) squares.

I've got a million of 'em! Like this: the Nats weren't going to fire Dusty until they saw how the team that beat them got so hideously spanked in the next round!

Counterpoint: Maddon is barreling into old coot-dom faster than a drunk passed out behind the wheel of an out of control RV.

It's [expletive] mesmerizing.

FREE PFTCOMMENTER.

3 strikeouts and 2 dongs. That seems fitting somehow.

It seemed briefly at the start of the Nats series like he was snapping out of it, but man, he has been solid butt for well over a month.

WASN'T REPORTED HERE, YOU DUMB BAG OF BOLTS.

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