Simple question. When do we start believing this team is as good as they're playing now?
Simple question. When do we start believing this team is as good as they're playing now?
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
They aren't. No one is or ever will be.
We just need to be prepared for the inevitable downturn and understand it is all part of the game.
At this point, I believe they are good enough to at least advance to the NLCS. I think I'll be disappointed if they don't, actually. Is that what you mean?
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
I'm inclined to believe that it's on some middle ground out there somewhere. There is no doubt this team is good. The pundits can carry on all they want about how the Reds were beating up on all the sub-par teams, but to go on a tear like they did, no matter the quality of their opponents takes a good team.Originally Posted by edabbs44
Plus, with all the hype about the N.L. East, the Reds have fared very well against these teams, save the Nationals. They swept 4 from Atlanta and 3 from the Mets, then they fared well on their west coast trip against San Fran, L.A., and San Diego.
Somewhere along the line, the ebbs and flows of the game will hit, but come October I believe we'll see the Reds as one of the National League teams playing post season baseball.
I believed they could compete before the year started.
I now strongly believe they can win the World Series.
/dustyball.
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand
Mid-October.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
No one is or ever will be what? A team that plays about 60% baseball.
That make zero sense.
The Reds are a very good team.
Nuff said.
When they win the World Series.
Reds Fan Since 1971
I've believed in them this whole season (even when things were driving me nuts) but this winning string of games has been WAY COOL and so much fun.
"I tried to play golf, but I found out I wasn't very good." -Joey Votto on his offseason hobby search
An MLB.com reporter asked what one thing Votto couldn’t do. “I can’t skate or play hockey,” Votto said. “Well, I can skate ... but I can’t stop.”
Don't stop believing. Hold on to that feeling.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
They've made believers out of me. Of course, we will see the down times, because that's the way a baseball season goes, but these guys are amazing.
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"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
All right now I'll have that song in my head for the next week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=VcjzHMhBtf0
Reds Fan Since 1971
Forever synonymous with the let-down of the Sopranos finale for me, sadly.
I'll be convinced they can make a run when the top of the order stops sucking. Cozart playing as well as he did in his first real "big game" tonight helped a lot.
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