That feeling when . . .

battists · 07-10-2015, 10:58 PM

You just rattled off 8 wins in your last 10 to scrape your way to 22-32 . . . and then division-leading Ft. Lauderdale comes to town for a four-game set.

RchW · 07-10-2015, 11:13 PM

And... ...

Westheim · 07-11-2015, 02:48 AM

That would be the point where I'd go to bed and cry profusely in advance, too.

james17 · 07-11-2015, 03:42 AM

That's when I start wondering what it is I have to do NOW to improve my team.

That sets in after I lose 3 of 4 to them. A trade usually follows. [sigh!].

battists · 07-11-2015, 08:54 AM

So far we have lost the first two games of the set to them, 6-3 and 12-3. Sigh.

battists · 07-11-2015, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by james17

That's when I start wondering what it is I have to do NOW to improve my team.

That sets in after I lose 3 of 4 to them. A trade usually follows. [sigh!].

Yeah me too, only I'm managing a minor league team, and am not the GM, so I'm toughing it out with the slop I've got!

battists · 07-11-2015, 03:15 PM

On the plus side, I turned it around and won the back half of the four-game set.

I get the mediocre Naples Knights in interleague play before playing seven straight against the top two teams on that side of the fence.

actionjackson · 07-11-2015, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by battists

You just rattled off 8 wins in your last 10 to scrape your way to 22-32 . . . and then division-leading Ft. Lauderdale comes to town for a four-game set.

How about you rattle off 17-10 months in April and May to start the season...and then go 6-21 in the month of June to sink back to one game under .500? Does that count? 3 of the wins were credited to my #7 starter, who was only there because I had two of my starting 5 hit the DL with season ending injuries. 2 wins out of the bullpen, and 1 for my #5 starter rounds out the six wins for the entire month. I see that my last save of this game was June 9th, so I've been pouting for a little over a month (in real 2015 time) now. Perhaps it's time to suck it up and get back to it.

Onward and upward! After all it can't get much worse.

Can it???

I say that with full knowledge that of course it can...It's baseball.

battists · 07-12-2015, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by actionjackson

How about you rattle off 17-10 months in April and May to start the season...and then go 6-21 in the month of June to sink back to one game under .500? Does that count? 3 of the wins were credited to my #7 starter, who was only there because I had two of my starting 5 hit the DL with season ending injuries. 2 wins out of the bullpen, and 1 for my #5 starter rounds out the six wins for the entire month. I see that my last save of this game was June 9th, so I've been pouting for a little over a month (in real 2015 time) now. Perhaps it's time to suck it up and get back to it.

Onward and upward! After all it can't get much worse.

Can it???

I say that with full knowledge that of course it can...It's baseball.

Ugh, that sounds painful! Good luck!!

Westheim · 07-12-2015, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by actionjackson

How about you rattle off 17-10 months in April and May to start the season...and then go 6-21 in the month of June to sink back to one game under .500? Does that count? 3 of the wins were credited to my #7 starter, who was only there because I had two of my starting 5 hit the DL with season ending injuries. 2 wins out of the bullpen, and 1 for my #5 starter rounds out the six wins for the entire month. I see that my last save of this game was June 9th, so I've been pouting for a little over a month (in real 2015 time) now. Perhaps it's time to suck it up and get back to it.

Onward and upward! After all it can't get much worse.

Can it???

I say that with full knowledge that of course it can...It's baseball.

Hah. Yeah, June sucks.

Like all months.

On May 31, 2004, the Raccoons won an extra-inning game in Oklahoma, 7-3 in ten innings, to get to 16 games over .500, their high water mark by a huge margin since the end of the 1996 season. The Raccoons haven't had a winning season since.

The next day, June 1, the Thunder romped the Coons' Edgar "Fat Cat" Amador for six runs in four-plus, and we were mauled by Oklahoma's Pancho Trevino, who whiffed nine in eight shutout innings, and were handed an 8-0 loss.

The Raccoons turned into the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and collapsed right where they stood. They hit .500 at the start of August after being swept over four games by the Boston Titans, and ended up under .500 the following weekend in the course of a 3-game sweep handed to them by their interstate rivals, the Wolves, with the crucial knock being an extra-inning walkoff homer by Pablo Ledesma, who had been traded off to those Wolves for a sixpack a few weeks earlier.

Crashed all the way to ten games under .500 before slightly recovering in the final few weeks.

Spent the last weekend of the season in New York, where the Crusaders haven't been relevant in over 20 years. On Friday they had George Kirk pitch the series opener. Kirk, 31, had amassed four wins in his entire career, and had a 6.25 career ERA, and his season ERA was even 6.63.

And the Coons got no-hit by that scum.

Yeah, you wanna talk misery with me, you gotta come up with something big, because misery is all I ever get in baseball.

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james17 All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,305	That's when I start wondering what it is I have to do NOW to improve my team. That sets in after I lose 3 of 4 to them. A trade usually follows. [sigh!].

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battists Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 18,506	So far we have lost the first two games of the set to them, 6-3 and 12-3. Sigh.

07-11-2015, 03:15 PM	#7
battists Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 18,506	On the plus side, I turned it around and won the back half of the four-game set. I get the mediocre Naples Knights in interleague play before playing seven straight against the top two teams on that side of the fence.