Shit

This sucks. This really really sucks.

After I attended game 4 at the Jake, I was flying about as high as I'd ever been. Now I am in despair.

This team was supposed to be the team of destiny. All year, they always seemed to come through in the biggest of spots. They brought the magic back to the Jake. They seemed to possess that un-quantifiable "grittiness". Maybe that isn't the right word, but oh well. Even tonight, it looked as if they were never going to give up. Westbrook was lucky to only give up 3 runs, and the Tribe was beginning to chip away. Then the Boston bats came back out against our best reliever. And that was that, the end to the 2007 season.

Big picture thinking and the omnipresent view of a silver lining may come tomorrow morning, or next week, or next month. But tonight none of that matters. I feel for those guys in the clubhouse. They gave it everything they had. Seeing Victor cry in the dugout after the game just reinforced my feelings for this team. To want something so bad, for so long, then to come up just shy, is nothing short of crushing. Even in defeat, I still love these guys. Every one of them.

Let's all give it up one more night for the 2007 Cleveland Indians.