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“It’s brutal,” Matt Olson said.

“We have nobody to blame but ourselves,” Strider said.

“No habla,” Acuña said.

Maybe he just didn’t want to talk about the loss or the playoff exit — although that didn’t stop his teammates from answering questions like professionals. Maybe he didn’t want to revisit how he went from an MVP-caliber regular season to hitting .143 (2-for-14) in the series and going 0-for-4 while stranding five baserunners in the elimination game. Maybe not talking is just a page out of his own, secret leadership handbook. If so, he should burn it.
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Ouch
 
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You know what's even worse..... we open next season against Philly, in Phillly.
If they won the NLCS make the WS or win it all you know they're going to rub it in Atlantas face.
 
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Quit watching MLB years ago, so there are things I do not know. How many wildcards are now in the playoffs for baseball? Is there no such thing as a pennant race anymore?

NBA regular season's end goal seems to be to eliminate four teams from the playoffs. Best description I've ever heard of the NBA playoffs was a comparison to being about as long and unpleasant as the Punic Wars.

As CFB migrates to free-agency with NIL and the transfer portal, it may get close to being as bad.
 
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Normally I'm not a big "that team wanted it more" guy or "this team wilted under pressure" guy when he comes to looking for reasons for defeats. However I could not help but notice that a bunch of guys had despondent looks in that dugout early in Game 1 when Suarez mowed them all down the first time through the order. Ronald in particular, but also saw it from Ozzie and others.

That's one thing to have that look late in a series when you're definitely getting eliminated, or if you're absolutely getting your ass kicked in a game. It's another to have that look early in the very first game, and the game was tied at zero. It was so damn early for them to already look that discouraged.
 
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05_never_again said:
Normally I'm not a big "that team wanted it more" guy or "this team wilted under pressure" guy when he comes to looking for reasons for defeats. However I could not help but notice that a bunch of guys had despondent looks in that dugout early in Game 1 when Suarez mowed them all down the first time through the order. Ronald in particular, but also saw it from Ozzie and others.

That's one thing to have that look late in a series when you're definitely getting eliminated, or if you're absolutely getting your ass kicked in a game. It's another to have that look early in the very first game, and the game was tied at zero. It was so damn early for them to already look that discouraged.
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They were absolutely intimidated. You can tell by their swings and approach
 
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zjcvols said:
They were absolutely intimidated. You can tell by their swings and approach
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Feelings of deja vu from 2022 playoffs?

Maybe, but it was amazing to me how quickly they seemed to get discouraged given the regular season they had. They murdered baseballs basically every day for 6 months, and it was like after one trip through the order, in a home game, they decided they didn't have it.
 
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05_never_again said:
Feelings of deja vu from 2022 playoffs?

Maybe, but it was amazing to me how quickly they seemed to get discouraged given the regular season they had. They murdered baseballs basically every day for 6 months, and it was like after one trip through the order, in a home game, they decided they didn't have it.
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Said it multiple times, but they did not play a meaningful game for a very long time, prior to this series. The offense looked a bit off the moment they clinched and that carried over.
 
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