The game today

[gotbeer]

For a while it was really fun, and reminds me of what this team can be.  

 

It was fun to watch Bourjos snag the homer.  It was fun to watch Trout hit a blast in front of his family.  Fun watching Trumbo slide and make a catch, and go to the wall, wondering if he would pull a Bourjos only to realize he's a foot taller than Bourjos so doesn't need to jump.  It was fun to have Trout go to the stands and get interfered with, by someone in a Trout Jersery.  Then watching Trout egg him on.  

 

When Bourjos made the catch, it seemed to light a fuse under the team.  They were out there playing ball, and not playing like they were under a microscope.   Trading web gems with the Orioles.  For the first time in a while, it looked like a team, and a team having fun with some emotion.  

 

This is one of those games, that although we lost, I felt good about.  Something that usually only happens when we are winning our way to a division.  

 

And maybe they did find the joy of baseball again, and the team will start playing better.  

[Mean Spirited]

Or maybe not.

[SmallSampleSize]

You sound like me thinking playing upper-tier teams would inspire their inner flame of awesomeness.

 

 

[tomsred]

Wasn't there a pitcher once by the name of Mobe Awesomer?  We should trade for him.