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NRaleighLiberal

(60,009 posts)
2. world series hangover - a doozie! oh well....
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 06:02 PM
Jun 2014

can't complain about their performance since 2004 - this will become a bridge year! Lots of youth coming along.

Auggie

(31,133 posts)
3. There's still a lot of baseball left, not to mention another Wild Card slot
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 06:07 PM
Jun 2014

If the game has taught us anything, it's that anything can happen.

Yeah -- and about that farm system. Deepest in the minors, reportedly.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
7. Every team appears to still have a decent chance
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 07:51 AM
Jun 2014

Baseball is like flipping a coin and gambling - whatever short term results, probability will show in the long run. They play so many games that a lot of teams began the year w/ cold snaps and will get hot towards the end of the season while a lot of other teams that are in the upper half will end the year w/ a cold snap. Usually talent wins out which is why teams like Detroit, San Francisco, Oakland, Washington, and St. Louis. Angels also hang around as does Dallas.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
6. I heard lots of complaining in September 2011 about their performance
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:35 PM
Jun 2014

Although it was so bad that I didn't even give my boss grief about it. Just knowing I could was enough.

JeffHead

(1,186 posts)
4. I watch every game and have been saying it for a month.
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 06:17 PM
Jun 2014

As much as i hate to admit it losing Ellsbury really hurts that lineup. But how about that Brock Holt!

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
5. I think it's just that they are missing that elusive "it" this year....
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 06:43 PM
Jun 2014

Passion, fire, whatever...close games this year they lost they won last year...the desire isn't there, the talent is.

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