Tiger Woods Member since Feb 15th 2004 18402 posts
Fri Oct-13-17 12:07 AM
100. "It's just not meant to be" In response to In response to 0
You can't blame Rizzo, he's built an incredible club
The pitching overall is stellar and was mostly great in this series, but it's especially cruel to lose mostly because your bulldog ace had a meltdown
The offense was lights out all year. You really didn't get enough of it this series, but then neither did the Cubs either.
Dissecting the series loss by the bigger takeaways, I would mostly just say that Gio sucks in the playoffs, Werth especially sucked this series, and you didn't get enough overall offense...but they lost a game 5 by only one run, so I'm still just so confused
I hope more than anything that Harper stays. Harper is the man now, and his attitude should set the tone for this team. Some of this team's demeanor just seems a little too cool for school sometimes. Werth, Zimmerman, Rendon...their stoic dispositions present a stark contrast to the Cubs or Yankees. These guys just don't seem loose enough in the playoffs.
Maybe they get through one day. Or maybe Werth leaves, Harper leaves, Zim retires in the next three years, and Mike Rizzo bolts for the West coast. Playoff baseball is just too fickle to forecast the future.
This doesn't feel like the Caps' annual choke, it feels like a prize fight that someone had to lose and my fighter lost. Painful.