Talk About Sports: What Drives Teams at the End of the Season?
Every team has that one player that they value - not necessarily more than the other players on the team, but that has done a lot for them. For the Baltimore Orioles, that player was relieving pitcher George Sherrill, the only member on the team who made it to the All Star Game earlier this summer.
He’d been out of the game for nearly a month before reactivation - an inflamed shoulder kept him from throwing the ball to his full potential. It’s safe to say that the O’s at this point are just looking for the chance to push themselves forward, to keep their head’s in the game and to get through the season with the best record possible.
That’s the thing that gets most teams going these days; the idea of wanting to go out with a bang - the desire to make the most out a season even if it weren’t the most successful season that they’ve had.
On some levels, whether you’re talking about baseball leading into the World Series or football and the pursuit of the playoffs or you’re talking about the NBA or any other sport: the later that it gets in the season, the more that the teams push through and give it their best.
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