Yelling at the pitching staff doesn't always help them do better. They're not in the army.
Okay, I need to apologize to the team for yelling at them right now. It's not their fault that the Rays are as talented and as clutch as they are, and I shouldn't yell at them for not being able to do something I know I'd never be able to do in a million years.
Besides, Dustin Pedroia almost hit for the cycle.
Ironically, the last game I watched in which a player hit for the cycle was also a loss - Jose Reyes pulled it off, and the Mets managed to lose anyway. I almost wonder if I'm unlucky like that or something, if I curse teams that way. Outside of baseball, I'm quite rational, but the game makes all of us superstitious.
The Mets actually appear to be trying their best to make me feel better tonight. And Seibu won its most recent game, too, and has extended its Pacific League lead back to three games. This isn't an entirely bad baseball day, I guess. I shouldn't be too upset. And I definitely shouldn't take it out on the bullpen, because it's not entirely their fault, either. The game could have been entirely different if Daisuke had hit his spots better in the early innings and gone a little further - one inning would have probably made a massive difference.
...That all being said, I'm still going to resort to reading H2 or something like that to make myself feel better. This loss still took the wind out of my sails tonight. I've had a weird (not bad, just odd and tiring) week anyway, and this doesn't really make it better so far - but I can't take it out on these people who I genuinely adore and look up to and yet can't control. I have to let them lose once in a while (or even five times in a row, apparently), because that happens.
Okay, maybe it's just Seibu trying to help. Thanks, Feliciano, for making my night a little less easy to reconcile. But there's an upside to everything, I guess - I got a cheap laugh from the Cardinals when I saw Yadier Molina's catching equipment had 'YADI' written across it on the front the other night and misread it as 'YAOI.'
And the line on ESPN about 'trusting your catcher' made me happy, too. And the whole thing about Daisuke being a huge fan of Tek's and helping him carry his luggage around. Those little stories and throwaway lines can honestly make my day a little better when I stop to think and remember them.
There's a tiny bit of good in everything if you just stop to find it sometimes, I think.
Besides, Dustin Pedroia almost hit for the cycle.
Ironically, the last game I watched in which a player hit for the cycle was also a loss - Jose Reyes pulled it off, and the Mets managed to lose anyway. I almost wonder if I'm unlucky like that or something, if I curse teams that way. Outside of baseball, I'm quite rational, but the game makes all of us superstitious.
The Mets actually appear to be trying their best to make me feel better tonight. And Seibu won its most recent game, too, and has extended its Pacific League lead back to three games. This isn't an entirely bad baseball day, I guess. I shouldn't be too upset. And I definitely shouldn't take it out on the bullpen, because it's not entirely their fault, either. The game could have been entirely different if Daisuke had hit his spots better in the early innings and gone a little further - one inning would have probably made a massive difference.
...That all being said, I'm still going to resort to reading H2 or something like that to make myself feel better. This loss still took the wind out of my sails tonight. I've had a weird (not bad, just odd and tiring) week anyway, and this doesn't really make it better so far - but I can't take it out on these people who I genuinely adore and look up to and yet can't control. I have to let them lose once in a while (or even five times in a row, apparently), because that happens.
Okay, maybe it's just Seibu trying to help. Thanks, Feliciano, for making my night a little less easy to reconcile. But there's an upside to everything, I guess - I got a cheap laugh from the Cardinals when I saw Yadier Molina's catching equipment had 'YADI' written across it on the front the other night and misread it as 'YAOI.'
And the line on ESPN about 'trusting your catcher' made me happy, too. And the whole thing about Daisuke being a huge fan of Tek's and helping him carry his luggage around. Those little stories and throwaway lines can honestly make my day a little better when I stop to think and remember them.
There's a tiny bit of good in everything if you just stop to find it sometimes, I think.