11-18, Chart

but … well, I was at the game and I left in the fourth. I can’t get over the fact that I felt compelled to leave that strongly in the fucking fourth goddamn inning.

The linear graph just doesn’t work.

but can they please send Sweeney AND Griffey packing now???

and i feel bad for you guys… yikes.

If my 2009 6-0 record says anything, this losing streak should surely end tomorrow. Don’t know if I will be sober enough to comprehend a victory by the end of the game though.

Matt asked Shannon what she thought about what Wak had said about Felix & mechanics, and she said that she hadn’t heard Wak, as she’d gone straight to Felix. Per her, Felix said it wasn’t anything mechanical and when Matt asked her what she thought the matter was, she paused, obviously casting around for how to phrase it, and finally came up with “… he’s lost his mojo”.

She said that she has known him since he was 18, seen every start, and that he doesn’t have his usual swagger, his confidence this year. That in the past on game day you’d always hear him before you saw him, hollering across the clubhouse, turning the music up loud, and that hasn’t happened this year— the whole year. He is struggling, with a lot of his support system missing (Adrian, I am guessing) and trying to feel his way. She noted that the last few years, the team would run out all happiness to play behind Felix, and it just doesn’t have that feel.

Matt asked if Felix might be feeling put-out that Lee is there, and she said no, that he, Lee & Bedard are good together, and have been since spring.

She then repeated something she’s mentioned since April, that the whole clubhouse is quieter this year, rarely playing music before or after games, even back when they were winning. She said it feels more like some of the veteran-laden teams of the past, and that last years clubhouse really was unusual for its cohesiveness and cheer. This year there are new guys, and a lot of them are trying to figure out what is not working for themselves, and maybe keeping more to themselves (which is apparently what Wak mentioned in that pre-game meeting)

At least we’re not the Indians http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t9-DIKDGGA&feature=player_embedded

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!