Not gonna lie, I dont take sports as do or die like I did when I was younger, but this series and the Texans game really depressed the **** out of me. I need a drink.
Nope. Last weekend was a hard one, Labor Day, Opening Weekend of dove season, me and my brother and 5 other miscreants went hard out at my place Fri PM - Mon AM. I didn't want to touch or smell booze from Mon PM until yesterday. We watched no sports, just radio and phone updates....maybe that's what happened to the Stros this weekend, I was watching every game.
We just lost 4 games in a row to a team whose best player is JED LOWRIE. I hate to sound like a broken record but it seems like Hinch inspires no confidence in this squad at all which almost seems impossible as they are so heavily suffused with talent. He just seems like a loser "numbers" guy in WAY over his head and I think a lot of the players either don't respect him or can't relate to him in one way or another. Dude should be in front of a keyboard 24/7 like the Jonah Hill character in Moneyball. I would love to see him not in the manager's seat next season but there's little chance of that happening unfortunately.
The Texans are a lost cause. The Astros on the other hand are going through a rough patch. Nothing is lost. October is what really matters. Spoiler: He agrees.
We are so getting swept in the first round by the Red Sox. Houston sports, man... Texans: "We need a decent quarterback to play football?" Never will beat the Patriots, anyway. Rockets: God only knows season-to-season, but nobody's beating the Warriors right now, anyway. Astros: Just so Astros. We have plenty of trainers. We need an army of psychologists and psychiatrists. Aeros: Consistently were good over the years. Couple championships. Gone. No one cared. I CARED! I miss hockey. Comets: Great for a decade under Van Chancellor. Gone. No one cared. Dynamo: Good history, but seem to be slipping recently, I guess. Still here, though.
This thread is too depressing. Brutal weekend in Oakland coming out of nowhere since the Astros were riding a 7 game win streak. All this of course amplified by Cleveland's 18 game win streak. September rosters though. Astros have such a big lead in the division that they can step off the gas a bit. As long as they can refocus and head into the playoffs healthy and playing good baseball I'll take this team against anyone. Imagine how Dodgers fans feel right now?
While the vets have, the majority and core of our roster hasn't experienced this before. That being, the expectation of not just winning, but going deep in the playoffs. And as October approaches, the pressure continues to heighten. Maybe this very thing is whats happening to the Dodgers as well. In any case, mental midgetness doesn't seem an apt description to me. More like emotional overwhelm maybe. Our guys got three weeks to get a handle on it. Also, we are not likely to sink lower than #2 in the AL unless the NYY or Red Sox catch fire. This is a time where Verlander, Beltran, McCann and Reddick need to step up in the dugout and off the field and provide some savvy wisdom. There is still time to right the ship.
Baseball is fickle. Playing hot or cold in September has little to no correlation (except regarding health/ physical abilities) with being hot or cold in October. If anything, McHugh and McCullers's health should be of greater concern than losing these games. That said, F the A's. This last series sucked. I avoided this forum as I didn't want to magnify my frustration with what I'm guessing went down this weekend.
