re: I'm glad we got our arses whipped

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We got punched right in the frickin mouth!
If that doesn't motivate the hell out of this team we never had a chance to be champions anyway.
Here's to a pissed off and fired up bunch of Tigers the rest of the series!!!

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How much does being "fired up and pissed off" really help you in baseball? It's such a precision game. You get a pitcher out there who is over-amped/angry, which could lead to him overthowing and missing the strike zone. You might be "super" fired up at the plate. But is that going to make your more aggressive and cause you to lose focus? I don't care how fired up you are. It's still very difficult to hit a baseball. Pressing in the field can lead to errors and dumb plays.

Baseball is not like football or basketball where that shot of adrenaline can make you bust through a would be tackler or run the floor faster than your opponent.

To me, the best thing you can do in baseball is refocus on the little things. Maybe more than any other sport, pressing gets you in trouble.