I found this post on my favorite baseball website http://www.rotojunkie.com/.
It is very strange how things in baseball shake out. Lofton has had a very productive career, funny how bad things have followed him around. Maybe this is why he was so sour.
Originally posted by: Jestaticx
Kenny Lofton- October's Bad Karma
Has anyone had a chance to look at Kenny Lofton's postseason resume lately? It's quite fascinating when you look at the plethora of playoff teams he's been on and the awful ways they've exited the playoffs. Early in his career, you could just associate blame to the Indians for not getting it done. But then when Lofton became expendable later in his career, he somehow ends up in a trade to land with a contender. Only for his team to wind up losing in the worst ways. No rings in eleven tries in the postseason for Lofton. The anti-Robert Horry
-95 Best record in majors and lost to Braves in World Series
-96 Best record in majors and lost to Orioles in Division series
-97 Best record in majors and lost to Marlins in NLCS
-98- Lost to Yankees in ALCS
Here is where this guy seems to end up on every team that collapses in the postseason
99- Indians blow 2-0 lead to Red Sox and lose in division series
01- Indians lose to Mariners
02 Up 3 games to 2, Giants blow a 5-0 lead in 7th in Game 6 vs Angels and lose (Lofton was the last out of series)
03- Steve Bartman
04- Yankees blow 3-0 ALCS series lead to Red Sox
06- Dodgers go down in 3 to the Mets in divisional series
07- Indians blow 3-1 lead to the Red Sox. Just to add on, it seemed ever since Game 5 when Lofton got into it with Beckett, the Indians just went downhill from there with Boston outscoring Cleveland 28-4 from there. Also more interesting, Lofton was called out on a key questionable hit in Game 7 and later held up at third on a goof by the third base coach. Bad things just happen around this guy in the postseason.
Monday, October 22, 2007
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