Maybe it’s the cold medicine talking, or maybe my mind has just been altered by the Braves loss and I’m willing to accept anything at the moment, but this quote from Adam Wainwright in Jesse Spector’s article previewing tomorrow’s Cards-Pirates showdown makes a lot of sense, regardless of the syntax.
Wainwright, who faces off against the rookie Garret Cole in Game 5, had this to say when asked if playoff experience matters:
“I think it can. Experience is one of those things where if you think it helps you it, does, and if you don’t think it does, it doesn’t. If you don’t have it, and you wish you had it, and you think you’re at a disadvantage because you don’t have it, then you are at a disadvantage.”
Or, as Satchel Paige said of age, experience is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter. And I tend to think it doesn’t matter to Gerrit Cole. If it did, he wouldn’t have shut the Cardinals the heck down in Game 2 like he did.
