I Didn't Wake Up As Mad at the Padres as I Thought I'd Be...

And, um, I don't need to recap all 180 games or whatever it was that we played, but, um, I think starting with last night, the boys had some fight in them.

We've had seasons end on complete whimpers, where just by the fifth, you're like, "Dog, this thing is so over." There was multiple times last night where we had guys on, and I turned to my wife and I was like, "I, I wanna turn this off 'cause this is about to get ugly and I can't watch a bloodbath." And then we would get out of it.

And the pitching chaos was insane to watch, and there was so much second-guessing in real time.

But in reality, letting up three runs in an NLDS game to one of the best teams in baseball's, like, not a bad result.

On the offensive end, Manny bunted for a hit.

That's great.

That's fantastic.

We stopped hitting after that, but then he comes up with what-- Like, what are the, what are the absolute bleeping chances of another robbed home run issue? And it's not to be like, "Well, if you give them the Ty France home run or if you give them the Manny home run, then we're actually up three." We lost.

I'm not here to cope.

I'm not here to be like, "We'll play the what-if-ems and what-isms." But our superstars did superstar things.

We just didn't have quite as much as a team that I think has a very good chance to go on to win the World Series.

And while it's not something where I'm like, "Oh, guaranteed that it makes it hurt less that, that you lose to the team that wins the World Series," but same time, like, we didn't drop the ball to, um...

You know, this wasn't like we, we had the-- This, this isn't the, this isn't-- Maybe the, the right metaphor is, this isn't March Madness, where we didn't-- We weren't a one seed that just got unseeded by a 16.

We weren't Kentucky losing to UMBC.

Like, this, this wasn't something like that.

We were a really good baseball team who lost a series to another really good baseball team.

We fought really well.

I think we managed really well.

And for those of you that wanna hop on social and pump out your AI slop graphics of being like, "We pay all this money, and all these guys ever do is lose, lose, lose, lose," no, no, no, no.

Lose, lose, lose, lose, lose is the Rockies.

Lose, lose, lose, lose, lose is 100 games for the, you know, is the, is the Angels losing 100 games for the first time in franchise history while having the greatest center fielder in the history of baseball.

Lose, lose, lose, lose, lose is Ryan Klesko and Phil Nevin and, uh, Brian Giles combining for jack all in the mid-2000s.

Lose, lose, lose, lose is a lot of other things than what we've got.

Sure, could you make the argument that, um, other teams have spent le- a little bit less money and had better results? Yeah.

Okay, great.