The Cellar

by goose1 on Apr 25, 2008 8:55 AM PDT

Feels sort of familiar, doesn't it, down here? It's been awhile. It's dark. I can't really feel anything. Hard to say how long we've been down here. What year is it? 2002? 2001? Lost track.

I'm glad this happened. Okay, not glad. But it's like reading a Beckett novel--it's claustrophobic and awful, but you're so far down, you're pretty certain the awfulness counts for something. Its healthy every once and awhile. It clears out all feelings of being entitled to success.

This is a down-payment, our suffering. In life, it can always get worse. In baseball, it doesn't matter if you're last by 1 game or 10---last is the floor. No lower to go. That's sort of cheery, right?

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I kinda like it

Now we’ve got that wild, desperate look in our eyes. So far we can still take solace in the fact that there is a difference between “sucking” and “playing like we suck.” I am still pretty certain we are that second one.

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

by Axion on Apr 25, 2008 9:06 AM PDT reply actions

Nothing left to lose! There's a kind of Bad-News-Bearsness to last place

as opposed to just being in 4th. 4th sucks more, I think.

by goose1 on Apr 25, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions

Back when we suck

my season tix were $25 face value, now they are $42 face value….........I don’t want to have a feeling of hopelessness at the ballpark, that is what work is for.

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. " ~Frank Sinatra

by Sammy G on Apr 25, 2008 10:43 AM PDT reply actions