MLB 2014 season thread

He's mucking things up for my team since I have to put Juan Legares in there. Hopefully he comes back next week.

 

O's are lethal. 2 homers in first against Leake for 6-0 lead.

 

Maybe the fix is in ;D

 

Never mind. More importantly, never trust injury-related information from a team. After announcing Gomez would be shut down for a week, the Brewers then used him as a pinch runner tonight.

 

Cardinals win again, their sixth consecutive victory. Brewers lose again, their eighth consecutive loss. How quickly the fortunes can change.

 

Correct you are.

 

On the whole "clutch" thing...

I'm willing to believe that folks aren't better in the clutch, because you can't really "try harder" or "focus more".

But, can't some people -- and maybe Langston is a poor example -- suck in the clutch? Doesn't the pressure of the situation get to some people?

 

By the time you reach this elite level virtually all of the athletes remaining are people who perform extraordinarily well under pressure. Still, some are better than others within the 750 guys on MLB rosters at any given time.

 

The family of the post-op cardio patient laughs when it is suggested there is no such thing as clutch.

 

Yeah. I almost added a qualifier that you would expect the percentage of such people to drop as you go up each rung.

It would seem the biggest thing is to not let failure -- giving up a bad goal, missing a field goal, giving up a walk-off HR, being mired in a slump -- effect you.

And, this would actually go against the "Christians don't take losing hard enough" theory.

Mariano Rivera gets credit for not letting a blown save get to him in his next appearance. Does he deserve credit? I would think so. Byung-Hyun Kim didn't appear to have this ability.

And, I'm not sure Phil Mickelson ever deserved the "choker" label, but winning his first Major did seem to be a breakthrough.

 

The esteemed cjericho was not saying Langston wasn't clutch.

He was saying Langston is a homosexual because he looks like he would be a surfer and because he didn't pitch deep enough into games for a scout's liking.

And apparently Dick Williams echoed this. Dick Williams also managed Langston through 14 complete games in 1987, a total that has been surpassed twice in the 27 years since then.

So, basically, whatever the fuck those old guys (and their conduits here) were saying is ridiculous.