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Sunday, July 29, 2007 |
You're A Better Man Than I, Jeff
Why I love Lookout Landing:
It's time we accept that this team is a longshot. Once you do that and stop holding out expectations of playoff baseball, the whole thing becomes so much easier. Yes, there's beauty in triumph, but there's hilarity in ineptitude, and whichever way you go, you end up smiling. Instead of being frustrated by these guys, look for the humor. Raul Ibanez tracking fly balls? A DH who hasn't homered since May? A clear dramatic upgrade still cashing his checks in Tacoma? A bad 8th inning righty whose struggles after surgery only suggest to the coaching staff that he needs to pitch more often so he can get over his struggles after surgery? These things are funny. What good does it do to get frustrated by this team? What reason could you ever have to bring yourself to think that they'd actually do something well? Lower your expectations and you'd be surprised how much more fun you can have. Baseball is entertainment, and winning a championship isn't the only way to make it an enjoyable, rewarding experience. Dodger fans are happy about beating the Rockies tonight, but I'd wager that watching Vidro fall down and tackle first base brought me just as much joy. In that respect, the joke's on other people, because I'm able to get satisfaction out of every game, instead of just the wins.Man, I wish I could take that attitude with the Angels. This team just won three straight, and owns the second best record in the AL, and I'm still not quite convinced they're going anywhere. Sure, barring some catastrophic injury to Vlad or the remaining healthy part of the pitching staff, or a 1995-style meltdown, this team is very, very, ever-so-likely to take the division. Get past the Red Sox, their historic postseason enemy, the team that one-strike-away'd them in 1986?Not ready to surrender? That's fine, neither am I. Not completely, not yet. But if and when we realize that it just isn't going to happen this year, remember this post, and in particular remember this sentence: getting angry at a baseball game is just you having the wrong response to something that was probably hilarious. Stick with that philosophy while watching this team and you'll be giggling like a little bitch in no time.
Let's worry about that when it happens. For now, I'm a Luis Castillo fan.
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