I’m putting up a variation of a post I put on SoSH:
I do think a large part of this season’s poor play is bad luck. But the hard part about taking it out on luck is that we as people are conditioned to blame people for things that happen. It’s a variation of the Fundamental Attribution Error. Maybe blaming lets us have more control. Better for our psyches to blame others, rather than to weep and wail at the Fates. Better to have a target, than to see ourselves as subjects of the sport of the baseball gods, like some Greek tragic hero beset by woes. So when bad luck happens, we spin around and look for someone to point fingers to, because it’s much better to feel like someone screwed up rather than to feel like a malevolent amorphous force like “Luck” is against us. It’s unfair, but it makes us feel good.
It’s like those psychological studies that show that optimists live longer and healthier lives, even though pessimists have a more realistic view of life. You want to blame luck? Yeah, but Luck be a lady, and it ain’t right to hit a lady.
That said… Millar sucks.