I mean…fuck.
Why do we do this to ourselves every single year?
At what point are we going to learn from our mistakes?
Heartbreak is a part of life, I get it.
We do this shit to ourselves every single year.
Voluntarily like a bunch of goddamn idiots.
Last night might have honestly been the most devastating of them all.
But the 2023 Philadelphia Phillies team?
That is a lost season that will linger with us for generations.
Hand up, finger pointing at myself, I got way too cocky after the Phillies went up 2-0.
Once the Phillies got up 2-0, that was a wrap.
Which is why “stunned” is probably the best way to describe what we’re feeling right now.
3-for-36 from Schwarber, Turner, Harper, JT and Castellanos through the final 2 games of the season.
All of it is just so inexplicable.
They just all went ice cold at the worst possible moment.
And the worst part about it is that I still love the shit out of all of these guys.
I love the shit out of everybody on that Phillies team besides Craig Kimbrel.
So I can’t even get angry at them.
It’s just pure disbelief and disappointment.
Yell and scream and do whatever you want to get rid of that energy.
Disappointment just sits with you and eats away at your soul.
There’s no getting rid of it until this team does something to supersede that disappointment.
The only way to get over the disappointment from this season is to win a World Series.
And only one team gets to do that every year, so the odds aren’t particularly high.
It’s brutally devastating.
This city had nothing but overwhelming confidence in this team to get the job done.
There wasn’t a single doubt in this city after the way this team looked after game 2.
One week later it’s over.
– I’m not even that mad at Craig Kimbrel.
The dude just sucks at throwing a baseball and he needs to never do it again in his life.
It’s not all on him, I get it.
The bats went ice cold for the top of the order and he can’t do much about that.
But this fucking guy, man.
He hides behind the shield of “loyalty”.
All because he wants to seem loyal, but that’s bullshit.
He’s terrified to make a tough call and hurt somebody’s feelings.
Loyalty, stubbornness, whatever it is, Rob Thomson got out-managed by a billion in this series.
There’s no riding with Philly Rob right now.
