Interesting. I give you credit for backing up your irritation with the team. I see people at the park at times who seem absolutely tortured when things don't go well and wonder why they are there in the first place. You know, it's not like going to a movie when things are sort of guaranteed to go according to plan.
I actually saw a guy last year have such a temper tantrum that he had to get up and was cussing the whole time up to the concourse. God knows what he did when he got there.
I have a certain policy to enjoy a ball game no matter the outcome, but I can see myself having a hard time this year. Frankly, I have a hard time seeing it any other year. This is THE worst year in franchise history, bar none, when it comes to disparity between expectations/results.
Frankly I think that is what makes or breaks a year when it comes to "disappointing" or "enjoyable," what you thought you were getting going into it. Low or no expectations, no hurt. Epic expectations with collapse? That's heartbreaking, and that could make a trip to the ballpark somber when you take into account what's going on when you're sitting at yet another 10-3 blowout against Milwaukee. I was there in 2013 when they lost to the Marlins on the Fan Fanale day game when they needed to run the table to get in the Wild Card, but 2013 didn't have the buildup this year did, and we were out of it much earlier than this part of the year. The loss didn't hurt that bad. I wasn't even upset after the Game 1 loss in the NLDS I attended. "Hey, there's 4 games to go." (Game 2 would have probably killed me though) If I'm there on Sept 8th and the Mets are beating us...well, I won't be cursing and screaming, it won't be torture, but it will be a pretty big bummer.
The only way they turn this year around is by winning the World Series. Maybe winning the pennant. If they finally break through the first round but get bounced by the Cardinals or somebody else, on the whole 2012 and 2014 both rank as better seasons for me. This regular season has been suffering. It's not been very fun to watch with the expectations we had. 2012 and 2014, though the playoffs were absolutely brutal, the regular seasons were meaningful and spectacular. The 2015 Nationals limping their way to the playoffs? Not nearly as fun. It'd take a lot to turn around 2015 on the whole after the miserable regular season it has been.
