This is why I never got excited

[cymatica]

This is the best team in baseball at getting your hopes up then letting you down.

 

[MontanaHawk05]

Nobody cares.

 

[cymatica]

Nobody cares.

You seem to

 

[SoulfishHawk]

You seem happy they're losing. So you can go full doom and gloom. Legit dedication to misery. I just don't get it.

Strange

 

[Maulbert]

You seem happy they're losing. So you can go full doom and gloom. Legit dedication to misery. I just don't get it.

Strange

Once again, you miss the point.

 

[cymatica]

You seem happy they're losing. So you can go full doom and gloom. Legit dedication to misery. I just don't get it.

Strange

You're right about one thing in your response, you don't get it.

 

[Grand Strand Hawk Fan]

This is the best team in baseball at getting your hopes up then letting you down.

It's only May.

 

[Wsumatt1982]

I haven’t seen anything from this team. Pitching hasn’t been good. Two of them are injured. Offense has looked ok at times against bad pitching. I haven’t seen anything new to get me excited.

 

[Seahawks Guy]

I'm not happy we are losing, but I agree with OP about not getting excited because this happens all the time. If they are well above .500 at mid season, I will be all in.

 

[Ozzy]

If they can get Kirby and Gilbert rolling in the second half I think they can still be a playoff team.

 

[Sperrydogg]

I’m still excited go mariners

What would you compare a 4-5 game baseball skid to in football? Losing a divisional game? It’s not what you want but it’s probably not even as bad as losing to say the rams…. That’s the beauty of baseball it just goes on and on and on….

 

[SoulfishHawk]

You're right about one thing in your response, you don't get it.

Oh I get it. Committed to misery. But do you.

 

[cymatica]

Oh I get it. Committed to misery. But do you.

Who's miserable? This is what I've grown to expect. At this point it's just something I laugh at.

It's like what I imagine being a Browns fan is like.

 

[Sperrydogg]

Who's miserable? This is what I've grown to expect. At this point it's just something I laugh at.

It's like what I imagine being a Browns fan is like.

Wait what? Your misery is like a browns fan? Oh I feel for you. Being a browns fan has got to pretty bad so you must be really roughing it

Jk…

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Who's miserable? This is what I've grown to expect. At this point it's just something I laugh at.

It's like what I imagine being a Browns fan is like.

Fair enough.

 

[Maulbert]

Oh I get it. Committed to misery. But do you.

There's a difference being pessimistic and realistic. Expecting them to just waltz into the playoffs with the best record in baseball is naively stupid. So they won a bit. Great. It means nothing. Meanwhile, every dipshit here starts acting like they're the 1927 Yankees.

 

[sutz]

Every win counts.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

There's a difference being pessimistic and realistic. Expecting them to just waltz into the playoffs with the best record in baseball is naively stupid. So they won a bit. Great. It means nothing. Meanwhile, every dipshit here starts acting like they're the 1927 Yankees.

Who is expecting that? I certainly don't. I hope they make playoffs; I'm not expecting it at all. So, people are dipshit's for enjoying winning? Ok.

Also, F the Yankees.
Like I said, committed to misery. Why rain on people's enjoyment of a winning team? A first-place team?
Geezus man, lighten up a little. Speaking of laughing, I laugh at people's commitment to doom and gloom, I guess it goes both ways.
Also, show me who here says they're the 27 Spankees. Show me in here who thinks they're going to have the best record in baseball? Nobody is saying that. They beat the Yankess last night, people are going to be happy, oh the horror

And, for the record, I've been down the doom and gloom trail for decades, and I DO get why many people expect them to choke. But after winning 9 straight series, to immediately jump into "See, I told you so" mode seems a bit premature. To ME.

 

[Wsumatt1982]

I'm not doom and gloom. I'm just realistic. A win is nice but I've watched this team suck for way too long to not get excited unless there is 10 games left on the season and we have an 11 game lead in the division. They started hot last year and shit the bed the second half of the season. This is the same players as last year and arguably worse on paper. Dipoto banked on players to have career years instead of projecting to their norm. Is it sustainable? Highly doubtful. But I never root for them to lose ever.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Fair enough. I get it. Very easy to let myself go back into "they're gonna' blow this" mode. To each his/her own.
Fan how you want, it's all good. I think we all want the M's to win.