Sports Quote by Tim Salmon

"That's our race. That's our playoffs" lands like a clubhouse manifesto: short, possessive, and quietly defiant. The repetition of "That's" isn’t ornamental; it’s a verbal bat tap, narrowing the world to a specific battleground and daring anyone to dismiss it. In baseball, "race" and "playoffs" carry different cultural weight. One is the long, grinding narrative of a season; the other is the televised coronation. Salmon collapses the hierarchy and insists that the chase itself can be the drama, even if October is out of reach.

The subtext is pride with a chip on its shoulder, the posture of a team living in the sport’s unglamorous middle class. It reads like a response to outsiders who treat anything short of a postseason berth as meaningless. No, Salmon implies: our meaningful moments aren’t waiting at the end of someone else’s bracket. They’re here, in the next series, the next week, the next chance to matter. It’s an argument for competitive dignity when the larger system withholds the spotlight.

Contextually, it’s the kind of line that makes sense from a player associated with workmanlike consistency rather than theatrical stardom. It reframes stakes for teammates and fans alike: don’t borrow urgency from the league’s official schedule; manufacture it from your own standards. In that sense, the quote doubles as both coping mechanism and rallying cry, turning limited opportunity into ownership.