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[Pedro Cerrano]

It’s a game thread. Emotions run high. Get over it.

[Mike B]

I read back through the pages and I didn't find it appalling.  Just the usual frustration in the moment it's happening.  That's your typical fan and I'm certainly no exception.  I think most people are fair weathered fans and its why attendance tanks when you have a lousy team.  You always remain positive, along with a few others, which is fine.  Some on here really go off the deep end when they read the negative comments.  Like family members have been assaulted. I find that pretty silly to be honest but hey, to each his own. 

Totally disagree but that is fine.  For someone who likes to talk baseball and the game, it often becomes unbearable.  Take care.

[Slidemaster]

Totally disagree but that is fine. For someone who likes to talk baseball and the game, it often becomes unbearable. Take care.

How would you prefer fans show what can only be described as anguish as the team gets stomped by their biggest rival at home for what looked like a 6th consecutive loss, two nights after said rival put one of their star rookies on the IL with a head injury by aiming 97 to his dome before mocking him as he lay there trying to get up?

Passion and emotion run high in sports. Not everyone is wired the same way and sometimes stuff comes out in the heat of the moment.

[Mike B]

How would you prefer fans show what can only be described as anguish as the team gets stomped by their biggest rival at home for what looked like a 6th consecutive loss, two nights after said rival put one of their star rookies on the IL with a head injury by aiming 97 to his dome before mocking him as he lay there trying to get up?

Passion and emotion run high in sports. Not everyone is wired the same way and sometimes stuff comes out in the heat of the moment?

I understand the anguish and as someone who sat in that heat yesterday among Yankee fans who were celebrating like crazy until the bottom fell out, I definitely felt the anguish, and I knew the thread was going to be rough, but IMO, the reaction was way over the top.  That said, I am done talking about it.  The game threads are clearly not for me.  Enjoy the rest of the season.  Go Orioles, see you!

[BSLChrisStoner]

It's not my cup of tea...   as I'm pretty balanced, and the high strung emotion just isn't me. 
I just don't get too high or too low in life, and that serves me well as a baseball fan... given all the highs and lows that come with any 162 game season.

 

What might surprise, is that my normal disposition is probably tilted towards being pessimistic. 
I work to be optimistic in life though, as I think being a pessimist is just too easy and everyone hates Debbie Downer. 

 

That said, I don't expect everyone to be optimists in game threads etc. 
If you think the sky is falling, I don't care if you say that. 

If you have to blow off steam, and that's therapeutic for you... all good I guess. 

 

I do get annoyed when I think people get to a point where the negative thoughts they are having blurs out all rationale thoughts.
But again, whatever overall. 

 

 

This 9-13 stretch has been tough to watch, but they enter the AS Break with the 3rd best winning % in the game. 
They haven't had a pitch thrown from the best closer in the game last year, and got under 40 innings from the guy that finished 4th in the Cy balloting last year. 

 

It's a team that is legitimately capable of winning the World Series.
It's also a team with some obvious limitations. 

Both sentences are true. 
We will see what Elias does to augment what exists - while hopefully at the same time not doing anything that could prematurely close the extended window of contention this group should have. 

 

 

I had a thread on the main board asking if people were enjoying this...  and I was thinking of the game threads when I posted that. 

 

We've got 66 regular season games left. 
Fan as you want to fan, but I hope everyone takes this year in and enjoys it.

[jamesdean]

Good post, Chris.  I still say that most fans are the "fair weather" variety and with short memories.  Just three years ago, the Orioles were in the throes of a 110-loss season.  I'm not speaking for myself but maybe some of the members are still a little shell shocked from all that losing for so many years and it doesn't take much to bring that bad taste back.  Like a couple of 5-game losing streaks over the past month.  Like you said, it's a long season and hopefully, they'll recharge themselves with the break and come back strong out of the gate. But it still is a head scratcher to me how personal some members take the criticism.  I do think that's kind of ridiculous. 

[BobPhelan]

I respect the passion and at least it means y’all care. True fanaticism for sure. Just declarative statements based on very little in the heat of the moment are not for me.

[jamesdean]

I respect the passion and at least it means y’all care. True fanaticism for sure. Just declarative statements based on very little in the heat of the moment are not for me.

This has nothing to do with sports but is that an actual photo of you? If it is, you look remarkably like Donnie Wahlberg.

[You Play to Win the Game]

This has nothing to do with sports but is that an actual photo of you? If it is, you look remarkably like Donnie Wahlberg.

Down boy. He’s taken.

[BobPhelan]

This has nothing to do with sports but is that an actual photo of you? If it is, you look remarkably like Donnie Wahlberg.

 

It is me haha but I'm not sure I actually look like Donnie.

[NewMarketSean]

I make no apologies. It's the Yankees, division race, heated series, at home. Losing that game would have been up there with the Mother's Day Massacre for me. Or the Jack Cust crawling toward the plate game. Or the game where Chris Ray was pointing up at the sky like the ball A-Roid smashed for a game winning HR was a can of corn.

 

I just think this knee-jerk emotional reaction to games makes me (and people like me) the bigger fan.