Still think this team didn't choke under pressure?

[Jim'sKid26]

On 10/2/2024 at 8:08 PM, Tony-OH said:

Where are you now?

Where are the posters who laughed when we said how boring this team was?
Where are the posters who scoffed at the idea that this team is full of players who can't perfrom under pressure?
Where are the posters that bring up that the Orioles offense scored the second most runs?
Where are the posters that go into the game thread and tell people they are overreacting when it's clear this team is choking time and time again?
Where were the posters who just think it's baseball that this core group choked once again?

Every single coach should be fired. Hyde should be fired. Elias gets one more offseason with an owner that may actually spend.

Santander, Mountcastle and O'Hearn should have played their last games as Orioles.

Rutschman needs to go to fat boy camp and lose about 15 pounds while putting on muscle. Maybe go to a hitting school that teach 2-0 is a great pitch to swing on. 

At the end of the day, this is EXACTLY what this team deserved. They have played like scared little school children since late June. Don't give me injuries, because this team's offense was in tact and they scored one freakin' run in two games. One. 

They were swept by a 85-win team that has struggled down the stretch. They collected two hits off a bullpen in 8 innings of work. They are an absolute and utter embarrassment. This team is more of an embarrassment than the team that lost 110+ games. 

Everyone involved in this season have stained their reputation. EVERYONE. Gunnar hits 37 home runs and craps his pants. Cowser thinks he's rookie of the year and dude swings at ball that hit him with the bases loaded. What kind of ridiculous unprofessional at bat was that? 

Adley? Are you kidding me. If they traded him this offseason I wouldn't shed a tear. 

The only thing good in any of this is now my calendar has been freed up. Never again will I ever trust a Hyde-led, Elias developed team led by his core. He needs to go out and find guys that don't poop their pants the second pressure is involved.

Thank you Burnes for being a professional and doing your job. You deserved better than being in a clubhouse full of choke artists. 

If Elias brings back this coaching staff he gets one more year to win a World Series than he's on the chopping block too. If he wants to ride with these losers, then go down with these losers.

I love to watch a Staff NCO completely lose it on his crew when they underperform in a crucial scenario. It's a thing of beauty when you see a GySgt, a SFC or a chief petty officer just go off on his group. The language is colorful, the volume is peaked and the intimidation factor is at an alltime high. If you've never seen it before in person you just don't appreciate the impact. 

I recall entering a squad bay as a young LT and seeing my HMC holding a young sailor about 4 inches off the ground by his neck.  The remaining members of the squad bay were standing at attention next to their racks. The Chief was "providing focused and explicit instruction," for the young seamen. The sailors all appeared to be paying absolute attention to the instruction while not uttering a single word. I apologized to them both for the interuption as I moved to the next squad bay. 

As I left I made a mental note to myself to check the chief's footlocker for bodies.....

Edited 1 hour ago by Jim'sKid26

[Three Run Homer]

They choked in the playoffs and they choked with RISP all season.  It sucks, no doubt about it.  Everyone is pissed off and rightly so.  

That doesn't mean that they are fated to choke until the end of time.  Clutch performance is not a skill.  Hitting and pitching are skills.  There is no reason to think that Gunnar Henderson will always suck in the postseason, or that Colton Cowser will always suck with the bases loaded.

I do think that Hyde should be fired, because he doesn't know how to manage the players he has.  He changes pitchers too often.  He kept batting Cowser fourth even though he is obviously not a good clutch hitter at this point in his career.  He kept batting Adley 5th even though he was a below-replacement level hitter for months.   Mullins and Urias were two of his best hitters in the second half and they were at the bottom of the order.  

[JR Oriole]

28 minutes ago, Three Run Homer said:

They choked in the playoffs and they choked with RISP all season.  It sucks, no doubt about it.  Everyone is pissed off and rightly so.  

That doesn't mean that they are fated to choke until the end of time.  Clutch performance is not a skill.  Hitting and pitching are skills.  There is no reason to think that Gunnar Henderson will always suck in the postseason, or that Colton Cowser will always suck with the bases loaded.

I do think that Hyde should be fired, because he doesn't know how to manage the players he has.  He changes pitchers too often.  He kept batting Cowser fourth even though he is obviously not a good clutch hitter at this point in his career.  He kept batting Adley 5th even though he was a below-replacement level hitter for months.   Mullins and Urias were two of his best hitters in the second half and they were at the bottom of the order.  

This is true.  Even Brad Lidge eventually got past his horrendous postseason demons and came through for Philly in 2008.  But some guys like Clayton Kershaw never seem to get past it.  Regular season Kershaw an all-time great. Postseason Kershaw way worse.  

I do think the more you fail in the postseason, the more baggage and pressure you carry with you to do well and reverse your narrative.