The Week That Was
A 3-3 week against the Indians and Yankees. The Rox currently stand at 38-39. Five and half games behind the Giants for the division lead in third place. Currently 19-19 at home and 19-20 on the road, the Rox have outscored its opponents 344-338 (expected wins is 39 versus historical wins at 36). On pace for 80 wins with 724 runs scored and 711 runs against. Playoff indicator (Runs scored/Runs Against ratio) is 1.02 (1.16 indicates high playoff potential).
Time for another rant. Raise your hand if you think this team is a playoff contender...yeah I didn't think so. Look I understand we are in the dismal NL West. The Giants have scored a grand total of 265 runs and given up 269 and find themselves 10 games over 0.500! Is that sustainable? Knowing the Giants...yup. So if we can't win the division then what...look a little deeper and notice where we are in the Wild Card hunt...we sit in 11th place behind the broken team that is the Mets and the likes of Pittsburgh and Washington. So can the cheerleading stop and therefore put our Rox in the category of most disappointing team ever once again.
We are at the half way point this week almost to the All Star break. The team has continued to comfort themselves indicating they haven't tanked and just have to get hot. Yeah well we started the month 4.5 games out after a dismal May have since gone 13-10 only to now find ourselves 5.5 out. Year in and year out, the Rox can't statistically keep hoping to win 15 of 20 games to get back into it. It's a nice story to hang our hat on but that is about it.
It's a real shame to waste an All Star year for our aging first baseman who would love the opportunity to give it one more go but his support cast has been lacking. Management threw the dice on some players that didn't work out, one rookie to fill in is nice but trying it with three probably isn't going to get you there, and well losing your number 2 pitcher is tough to overcome...therefore it is really that amazing Rox find themselves just trying to be competitive.
On the positive side this is an odd year and stranger things have happened...I'll keep watching but come on show some spark!
Time for another rant. Raise your hand if you think this team is a playoff contender...yeah I didn't think so. Look I understand we are in the dismal NL West. The Giants have scored a grand total of 265 runs and given up 269 and find themselves 10 games over 0.500! Is that sustainable? Knowing the Giants...yup. So if we can't win the division then what...look a little deeper and notice where we are in the Wild Card hunt...we sit in 11th place behind the broken team that is the Mets and the likes of Pittsburgh and Washington. So can the cheerleading stop and therefore put our Rox in the category of most disappointing team ever once again.
We are at the half way point this week almost to the All Star break. The team has continued to comfort themselves indicating they haven't tanked and just have to get hot. Yeah well we started the month 4.5 games out after a dismal May have since gone 13-10 only to now find ourselves 5.5 out. Year in and year out, the Rox can't statistically keep hoping to win 15 of 20 games to get back into it. It's a nice story to hang our hat on but that is about it.
It's a real shame to waste an All Star year for our aging first baseman who would love the opportunity to give it one more go but his support cast has been lacking. Management threw the dice on some players that didn't work out, one rookie to fill in is nice but trying it with three probably isn't going to get you there, and well losing your number 2 pitcher is tough to overcome...therefore it is really that amazing Rox find themselves just trying to be competitive.
On the positive side this is an odd year and stranger things have happened...I'll keep watching but come on show some spark!
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