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it is more worrisome that after he gave up the homerun he allowed two men on and struggled to get out of the inning. That is a sign that the stress got to him.



If anyone in here had the season he had last year and started off game numero uno of a fresh new season by surrendering a tape measure shot to blow the dazzling outting by Oswalt, I believe anyone of us would have let the stress get to him. It's hard to figure the Lidge thing out because it seems like the other team is always catching a card on the river to defeat him. It's something crazy, like a bomb on a very good pitch. You have to think things should start evening out and Lidge wouldn't do this for quite some time. His stuff is too good and he's too fearless to get shelled like this for much longer. I still believe Brad will be the lights out closer he was 2 season ago. I just wonder how many more games it will cost us to get him back to that status.