i don’t think it’s a crime to get frustrated when your team is underperforming. Y’all make it seem like it’s the most egregious act. Of course there are tasteful ways to go about expressing your displeasure. The optimism some of you show is nice and probably realistic but some of us are just wired to see the glass half empty, reasonable or not. I see significant differences between this season and last and have a hard time buying into the “162 game” philosophy at this point but will defer to the seniors here and gladly eat crow once the team turns it around
Sorry if I came off like a jerk. If you hadn’t made the Ranger comment, I wouldn’t have had the response I did. Our franchise is in the midst of arguably the greatest run of a franchise since ARGUABLY the Yankees of the 1950s. I never dreamed I’d see anything like this from our baseball team growing up. They’ve been historically great. Baseball is a marathon…as I mentioned in another post, the Nats beat a super great (arguably best ever) Astro team in 2019, and were trash through 31 games. I’m not making guarantees it’s going to be rainbows and unicorns, because it’s been a very long time since a champion repeated in baseball. The game is too nuanced for that to be as (relatively) easy as it is in other sports. But please never ever never bring up the Rangers as the “I wish we were that” example ever lol. I will lose my **** every time and have to apologize over and over for it
i think the injuries are overplayed. once brantley, altuve, and mccormick come back, will they all hit 0.300 and drive in runs left and right? highly doubtful. hell, the offense didn't have Yordan against the Rays and they won 2 out of 3. AWAY. Offense struggling at home is worrisome. Not only that, they struggling against pitchers where the pitchers are struggling coming in.
I’ll take my chances with Brantley and Altuve and McCormick and the same lineup that literally just won a WS without Brantley
The bottom line is the team had a brutal April schedule with: Arguably their best player and certainly one of top 4 players missing the entire month. Another one of the projected best 7 hitters missing the entire month. One of the 4 best starting pitchers missing the entire month. The projected starting CF missing half the month. And finished. 15-13. Now those players are still gone and 2 more of the 5 remaining starting pitchers are hurt. If the team can finish May with a record above 500 the team is doing great and should finish very strong.
Yes, and the Astros plane tonight could get shot out out of the sky by one of those Chinese weather balloons.
Baseball is a total crapshoot…similar to hockey in so many ways. You’re going to be miserable for 162 games if you don’t lean into that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and all that but I'm still angry when we can't score runs. It's been putrid lately.
"Well, you should all take the sacrifice as I did: no meat on Fridays or the Sabbath" Peter, a fisherman: "Uh...Jesus?" Jesus: "OK, Fish is not meat, a'ight?"
Can we just play playoff teams the whole season? It's inexplicable how this team plays so badly against subpar competition but play very well against upper echelon teams. The good news: they did that last year too.
And they have beaten a bunch of great pitching. Which would you rather have? Beating up on crappy pitching and losing to the good ones that you'll see in the playoffs? Or vice-versa?
The season starts at Memorial day. If we are .500+ at that point, then we will earn a playoff birth. We are built for the summer.
you're talking about this year or in general? because so far this is happening with the astros against starting pitchers this year....
A win is a win. Teams that win more typically are better in the playoffs. Teams that have better players do better in the playoffs. Beating that team or that pitcher really doesn't matter too much with the exception of teams that have a split weakness.
Like the view of the forest is different than amongst the trees, so too many here view baseball in a broader sense and others are like what happened this week. And so often the ensuing arguments that follow never identify or point out the inherent difference of perspective that lies underneath. For me, both have merit and their place.
