Every other time, the team with the HFA lost at least once at home. Lots of times, the team with the HFA won it back and won the series by winning in the other city. The ones at home. Give it up already. But even that, Leiter admits, often doesn't make a difference.
Every ballpark is loud in the postseason.
At some point during every game the fans start to scream their heads off and flail around. After awhile, it's just so much noise. And so it comes down, as it almost always does, to the people on the mound, not the ones in the stands. It comes down to who's hitting and who's pitching, not who's serving breakfast or what bed was slept in last night. Still, no one can shake the notion that this thing is hugely important.