This has been kind of a weird season for me as a fan.

Early on, my wife and I were very intensely into the season, watching almost every game, and listening when we couldn’t. We attended 3 games early on in the season, and lived and died with the team.

However, there was the wedding on the horizon, and as the team slowly slipped out of their early season high, and with me adjusting to not having the time to follow everything I could possibly want to follow, June and July came and went with us losing our grip on the day to day events of the team. Yes, we knew they were slipping, and we knew in general why, it was just hard to concentrate on it like we had been.

August was a lost month for me as far as my fandom went. I had started a new job in July, further lowering the amount of time I had to follow my squad, and with the wedding being the fourth weekend of the month, we still had lots to do.

Two weeks later, after the honeymoon last weekend, and the “getting back to reality” phase that still hasn’t completely finished yet, it’s still difficult to ensure I’m watching even two or three full games a week. It’s only with the likes of Brew Crew Ball, Right Field Bleachers, and the work Cody does here that’s kept me in the loop.

The words I’ve been reading from the three sources have been mostly frustration, bemoaning the lack of pitching and the lack of a catcher that knows what a bat is. In other words, the same conclusions I’ve come to.

It’s not all bad news, though. Even sitting here at 66-71, it’s been one of the better seasons of the decade. Today’s food for thought is the record of this team over the past 10 seasons, with this year included as a partial entry.

1. 2008 (90-72, .556)
2. 2007 (83-79, .512)
3. 2005 (81-81, .500)
4. 2009 (66-71, .482)
5. 2006 (75-87, .463)
6. 2000 (73-89, .451)
7a. 2001 (68-94, .420)
7b. 2003 (68-94, .420)
9. 2004 (67-94, .416)
10. 2002 (56-106, .346)

There have been better days, but for the most part, there have been worse days.

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