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Originally Posted by George Foster
This was our starting line-up for Saturday...shut out by a AA-AAA team. I got nothing...
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Originally Posted by Reds/Flyers Fan
This team hasn't been the same since votto returned. And votto is clearly not the same. There's no reason to think anything will drastically change on Saturday.
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Originally Posted by Reds/Flyers Fan
Nice way to go into the playoffs - getting shut out by the cardinals B team.
Brutal.
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Originally Posted by Gizmo
Good to see our bats peaking heading into the playoffs.....
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Originally Posted by Kc61
Good momentum builder.
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A whole bunch of question begging in these comments.
Would it really prove anything if they scored 5, 10, 15 runs in that game? If Votto, Bruce, Frazier, Ludwick, and Stubbs all hit homers in that game, what would that mean for the playoffs? Would that be predictive of playoff success? Would they be more pumped for Saturday's game and do better? Is baseball about momentum or "peaking"? Do ballplayers really hit better in a current series because they've been hitting good for a week, or in the last few games, or in the last series?
The moral of this hand wringing about performance in September to me is this: if the playoffs are a crapshoot, which seems to be a clear consensus that I've seen repeated by poster after poster, and the name of the game is just to get there, teams can just get unexplainedly hot during the playoffs...it seems like all bets are off coming Saturday and a new "season" begins.