Bummer

by mike

Here’s a pic from when everybody was still smiling. When the believers still believed. Hickenlooper is pictured here in section 156.

Ah, but no miracles last night.

The fans came with heart, so did the players, but I gotta admit I think we got out coached last night. Boston wasn’t making mistakes in a game that everyone said was going to come down to pitching. The Sox had it down to simple stupid… If they aren’t pitching well pull them. Have no hesitation, no maybes, just leave in the folks who are hot and pull those who are cold.

We couldn’t get that simple idea into our high altitude heads. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Every single person around me, in both of the past two games, could not understand why in the world we kept giving the ball to Fuentes. He was erratic as heck, slinging balls wild and walking the Sox or else pitching straight to them. This is not about picking on Fuentes. Everyone can have a good day, a bad day, a team that they can strike out and a team that licks its chomps when you hit the mound. It was clear to everyone except the coaching team that the Sox had Fuentes’ number. And sure enough, pitch one HR which could have been all the difference (don’t even get me going on game 3).

My point is… lets hope we learn from this for next year. I bought 4 season tickets on my iphone in the middle of the game last night as a show of faith. We hit the homer right after.

We didn’t follow the simple rule of “stick with what works”. The Sox pull pitchers at the first sign of a problem, the rotate back in the pitchers that work. We just didn’t learn. There also was a rumor going on that the karma was impacted by the ticket sale screw up that hit the fans in a bad way. I’m not sure I buy into that one, but then again Baseball is a superstitious sport.

But we were in the World Series. We tasted it. And we will be back again.

Go Rockies!!! Denver loves you!! Thanks for the experience and we can’t wait until next year.