# MLB: 2013 Postseason **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2013-postseason/669978 **Category:** The Game Room **Created:** [September 30, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2013-postseason/669978 "2013-09-30T04:26:04Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 301
### Author: ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23) #### Post date: [October 11, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2013-postseason/669978/301 "2013-10-11T21:11:23Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > If you have to ask … Oh, don’t be daft. Of course I know. It means winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing! You gotta have heart and come through in the clutch! You need guys who know how to win! You need RBIs …in other words this is gibberish. I couldn’t have asked for a clearer sign of “no argument here.” > [@Peremensoe](#): > > **Happy** … you seem to be drawing a great deal of insight into BB’s attitude toward and feelings about postseason wins from, to my knowledge, just two widely-quoted remarks comments during his sixteen-year MLB GM career–the “shit doesn’t work” and “fucking luck” comments, which I’ve interpreted as mostly expressing _frustration_ with postseason losses. In fact that was all one comment. And yes, Beane was frustrated at the limitations of what he’s able to control. If the A’s want to win more, you’d think the easiest way would be to stop being one of the cheapest teams in the majors, which would let them attract some better players and add depth. But that’s not going to happen. “Do something else!” isn’t really an alternative. Incidentally the tight budget may have something to do with the lack of midseason trades **ElvisL1ves** was talking about: in those trades you usually get one expensive asset that you keep for a short time in exchange for several assets that are cheap and under team control for the long term. That doesn’t sound like something a team on a shoestring budget is going to do. > [@jsgoddess](#): > > The fact that you don’t appear to understand statistics or confirmation bias doesn’t actually make them go away. But _statistics don’t have heart!_ Holy cow, I just noticed “stats are for losers, winners win.” Winning happens by _MAGIC_! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-2013-postseason/669978)._