It's always amazing how this goes with baseball fans. Bad teams just don't have "enough fire." When they go on runs it's because they were "sparked." TALENT wins out in baseball over a regular season.
Tell that to David Eckstein, World Series of MVP of a recent year. His sense of urgency is extraordinary.
But he's bad at baseball. .278/.333/.335 in 44 postseason games. He had a pretty good stretch of five games in late October last year.