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You guess correctly. [expletive] espn. soccer was made for HDtvs

is this ish in HD? i'm going to go ahead and guess that mun2 doesn't broadcast in HD.

They called Patton back up?

I've already agreed with this. Multiple times. In this thread that you aren't reading. OK, so you say "maybe the Cubs have felt more pressure, and maybe this has affected them". If so, then we agree. But no, I'm not projecting a lot of my own [expletive] on the cubs. We all want the Cubs to win, but I can say that my life will go on if they don't, and I should hope yours will too. And no, I have not proven anything, nor have I claimed to. And you certainly haven't either. Tough to read every line in every post when a thread blows up like this. you're not following me. it's ok, you wouldn't believe it, anyway.

I've already agreed with this. Multiple times. In this thread that you aren't reading.

you're projecting a lot of your own [expletive] on the cubs, here. is there more pressure in the playoffs? yes. is there more pressure on the cubs than the DBacks or Dodgers? Debateable, but let's say yes. Did the Cubs fail? Yes. But did all of that cause them to fail? It's hard to say if it even played a part, and sitting on your couch getting pissed off everytime Steve Phillips says STEVE BARTMAN doesn't make it so. It's correlation, not causation. At least it's not proven causation.

So your theory is: Play in high school and know scouts are in the stands? No problem. Play in minor leagues knowing your future as a ballplayer is on the line each and every season? No problem. Break into the big leagues, knowing that rookies need to perform immediately or get labeled "AAAA," No problem. Play for a team whose fans really want to win? Oh no, too much pressure! Here's Greg Norman: Play as a young golf pro with no money? No problem. Win tournaments all over the world and become number 1? No problem. Have a 6 stroke lead in the final round at the Masters against Faldo? CHOKE. What about Dan Jansen. US olympic trials? No problem. World Championships? No problem. 1988 Olympics? Fall twice. Both of these guys just wanted it too much and couldn't handle the pressure. Everyone has a breaking point. Chance? I don't think so. The ability to handle pressure is critical in sports. Some athletes are like Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan. Others are like Greg Norman. You clearly haven't read anything in this thread. No one is denying that pressure can affect people negatively. kyle is pretty much saying that players who have gotten through the minors and such to reach the majors and pretty much immune to pressure, since they've faced so much of it already just to get there. when has anyone paid attention to anything he says? he's just trolling you.

So your theory is: Play in high school and know scouts are in the stands? No problem. Play in minor leagues knowing your future as a ballplayer is on the line each and every season? No problem. Break into the big leagues, knowing that rookies need to perform immediately or get labeled "AAAA," No problem. Play for a team whose fans really want to win? Oh no, too much pressure! Here's Greg Norman: Play as a young golf pro with no money? No problem. Win tournaments all over the world and become number 1? No problem. Have a 6 stroke lead in the final round at the Masters against Faldo? CHOKE. What about Dan Jansen. US olympic trials? No problem. World Championships? No problem. 1988 Olympics? Fall twice. Both of these guys just wanted it too much and couldn't handle the pressure. Everyone has a breaking point. Chance? I don't think so. The ability to handle pressure is critical in sports. Some athletes are like Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan. Others are like Greg Norman. You clearly haven't read anything in this thread. No one is denying that pressure can affect people negatively.

One swing of the bat each series is pretty insignificant when looking at the overall performance of each series. I just don't see how any rational person can say that their performance the last 2 postseasons had nothing to do with not being able to handle pressure. I'm not saying that it was the only reason, I'm just saying that it was obviously a factor. I honestly thought this was pretty much common sense. those 6 games equal like 2 percent of the 330 or so that the cubs played in those two years. i don't see why 6 proves the roster is full of chokers when it performed so well as a whole the other 98 percent of the time. there's more pressure on them in the playoffs, but there's plenty of pressure in the regular season, too. i don't know how much more comes into play in a playoff series, but i can't imagine it's enough to break the camel's back and turn them into stumbling idiots all of a sudden. come on. the playoffs are a completely different beast. everything is amplified.. if you lose 3 games in a row in the regular season, big deal. it's going to happen. you shrug it off and come back. you don't start thinking "holy crap, we're almost eliminated"... because you're not. you have all the time in the world to turn it around. in the playoffs, you lose 3 straight games and it's over. you really can't compare a 6 month long, 162 game regular season to a postseason series where you're forced to win IMMEDIATELY it's pretty much the same reason why kyle's "there was so much pressure on them in the minors and blah blah" argument is weak. you have plenty of time to get it going. if you're good enough, you'll eventually show it and you'll get noticed. I know it's amplified, I said that and I'm sure it played a part in the losses, but I think you're overestimating its effect on them. It's the same reason people blame the umps when the cubs lose or talk about how lucky the cardinals are and why people talk about the curse. They can't accept the fact that the Cubs lost on their own merits. It has to be something bigger. Kevin Gregg throws 12 straight scoreless innings, suffers two bad games and instead of saying, "well, every reliever that's ever pitched has had a 2-game rough stretch," people freak out about kicking him off the team. It's the same principle.

One swing of the bat each series is pretty insignificant when looking at the overall performance of each series. I just don't see how any rational person can say that their performance the last 2 postseasons had nothing to do with not being able to handle pressure. I'm not saying that it was the only reason, I'm just saying that it was obviously a factor. I honestly thought this was pretty much common sense. those 6 games equal like 2 percent of the 330 or so that the cubs played in those two years. i don't see why 6 proves the roster is full of chokers when it performed so well as a whole the other 98 percent of the time. there's more pressure on them in the playoffs, but there's plenty of pressure in the regular season, too. i don't know how much more comes into play in a playoff series, but i can't imagine it's enough to break the camel's back and turn them into stumbling idiots all of a sudden.

I don't mean to sound like I'm making excuses, but didn't the Cubs lead early in the Arizona series and in game 1 of the Dodgers series? I mean, you're taking two three-game series spread out over a 365-day period and acting like it's proof of "anti-clutch" or whatever, when no one in this thread is denying it exists. Well, except maybe Kyle, but you know how that goes.

literally 2 hours ago i heard somebody on mlb network saying that the white sox just acquired "a superstar caliber hitter", in those exact words that's embarrassing. it was probably larkin.

espn does not make alex rios out to be a superstar hitter

hahaha, every damn time

oh i know, i get so SICK AND TIRED of how they go on and on about alex rios.

what moves were these?

haha, foul ball, [expletive] you, colorado

hasn't landed yet

if this is larry roth's child, it makes me wonder how [expletive] old larry roth is

wait, what? when did I say that? http://northsidebaseball.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=51922&start=125#p2014920 is memory something you can flick on and off actually, it is. and what's your point? you can remember stuff from november? I meant it then and I meant it now. I'm no saint, you're the one bringing that up in this thread. i didn't bring it up. im just wondering what it means when you say you want to teabag me, that's all. can you explain it

wait, what? when did I say that? http://northsidebaseball.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=51922&start=125#p2014920 is memory something you can flick on and off

www.fred.com

he was talking about notre dame I knew it meant Notre Dame; hence the smiley (I suspect you actually both know that). My post was a reference to this poll from around a year ago. ahhh, sorry, ive got smilies turned off

one thing that people need to realize is that the belief in clutch players is really founded on some faulty stuff. you only watch the cubs (for the most part). the players on the cubs fail more than they succeed (the old "a .300 hitter fails 7 out of 10 times" argument.) so when a player comes up in a clutch situation, the odds are already stacked against them. it's the same reason that people freak out about refs being out to screw them, they only see when calls go against their own team.