Woah, slow down there. Choking is a word that shouldn't of been used there, its too harsh, I know that. I was drunk and biter after getting a call from my family in the south side of Chicago rubbing in their victory and I got ahead of myself.
However, since we are on the subject and I'm being criticized, allow me to retort.
Choking, to me, is not doing your job in a clutch situation. With that definition, in my eyes, choking happens all the time. That definition also depends alot on expectations. If you expect a player to get a clutch hit and he doesn't it hurts more than say, a player with lower expectations not getting a clutch hit.
I expect Moberg to do alot more than he has been doing with the bat. A .233 post season average is not choking, but its nothing to jump to his defense about (not that any of you guys were). I consider Mobergs job at the plate is, primarily, to drive in runs when possible (I expect him to be the #2 man in this department next to Berkman). During the season, Morgan drove in 15.44% of the teams RBIs. During the postseason he has actually driven in 19.47% of the teams RBIs. However, that number is inflated because of the 5 RBI CLUTCH performance in game one of the NLDS. In the NLDS he hit 29.17% of the teams RBIs. Since then he has hit only 9.52% of the teams RBIs, 10.53% in the NLCS.*
Now, can you kind of see what I was expecting and how it doesn't match up? After starting out with 29.17% of the team RBIs his numbers continued to drop to the current 9.52% state. This isn't choking, but I think its close.
* i know these stats don't tell the whole story, but i do believe it gives you an idea of where we are headed....