I feel like there should be folks that remember the bad teams in DC. I remember when the Tigers were awful. That was not fun. day in and day out losing is not enjoyable. At all.
But I don't particularly care either way. I'd love winning and will hope for it, but in the end, a day at the park, even if they lose, is still a damn good day.
I started watching baseball with the Nats in 2007. It led me to have really low expectations from the team, and I enjoyed the improvement from 2009-2011. 2012 was a whole new experience for me (I don't follow other sports, so it was the first time I got to watch a team make it to the playoffs). They seemed like the team of destiny after the Game 4 Werthquake. The Game 5 dagger was absolutely -brutal-.
Much like BiL has mentioned earlier in the thread, it hit me really hard. And after a month or so, I realized it hit me -way- too hard for something that, at the end of the day, is just a bunch of sort of grown ass men playing a kid's game. I'm disappointed in this season (and 2013 and 2015), but it's not causing me depression or angst. At best, I feel a bit of disgust when I watch something like the Cubs walk off. Easy to be armchair manager, but I told my wife that after the second HBP this was going to end really badly and they needed to change pitchers ASAP.
For now, I can just sort of put my enthusiasm on pause. If they get to four back by the end of the month, I'll start watching every game again instead of just the Max starts. Until then, I'll just spend more time with my family or with a backlog of books and look forward to the off season stories like 'Who signs Bryce and for how much?'
