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Originally Posted by jayswin
Remember last year with all that overwhelming confidence and swagger the team got from the trades at the deadline? It felt lik ethey couldn't lose with the clubhouse on an absolute high. Man, I'd give anything to be reliving that right now. This year has the opposite feelin after the trade deadline.
Everything's starting to go cold and at the worst possible time. If we hit a prolonged slump, things could be over before we know it, and this is our last year.
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Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint to the finish line. Please seriously ask yourself if Boston or Baltimore has enough credible arms in their rotation to keep up until October once every SP's arms shows signs of fatigue. The bats will always go cold here and there, but this ballclub's SP/Rotation...that's their biggest difference between the competition right now. The Jays will be fine.
Oh, and Baltimore lost again today, so we are still in first place in the AL East. Let's not overreact. Plenty of baseball left and we have the pitching firepower and bats to win this division. And if push comes to shove, I have the utmost confidence in the Jays pitching to beat Baltimore's and Boston's EVERY SINGLE SERIES (against those specific teams) from here on out.
Anyways, the beauty of baseball is that your team just has to win the series to contend. We win tomorrow (which makes it a 2 of 3 series win) and this thumping will be forgotten. This isn't like hockey, football, or basketball...reflect upon series wins, not individual wins. You gotta have a short memory to enjoy the beauty (errr...the grind) that is MLB's 162 game season.