I'm going to try and keep this short and simple. I feel incredibly dejected at the moment.
I admire and like all of the Toronto Blue Jays fans on here. Friendly and passionate fans they are.

You won 2-1 tonight. Bautista and Encarnacion both went yard. Some nice solo shots.
I'm disappointed Lance McCulers had gotten hurt after that and have to leave the game.
He was sensational early on but then he just threw Bautista and Encarnacion letter high pitches (up in the zone).

And then Joe Musgrove came in and dazzled in his MLB debut.
He pitched 4.1 scoreless innings in relief with 8 strikeouts. That kid looked amazing.

But it sucks when we lose games like this. It's been a problem for a while now.
None of that quality pitching matters. I can't handle this lack of offense anymore.

We could have traded Joe Musgrove and Alex Bregman for Ryan Braun, for example...
Or even one of those guys for Carlos Beltran. Teams wanted those guys and we kept them instead.

It just sucks 2016 is going to likely end with us missing the playoffs. Way too many 1 run games lost.
But if the Blue Jays make it, or the Tigers, I may cheer for you guys in the postseason.

I don't know if I have the heart to cheer for the Rangers. They have owned us for two years now.
We play the Rangers for three games this weekend. Can we beat them once or twice? 1-9 vs. them this year.

2017 is a long time away. I don't know what moves we can make in free agency. Yulieski Gurriel will make his MLB debut on August 16. I want to feel excited but only wins can cheer me up. I doubt he's going to single-handily spark our offense.

I'll be sitting at home watching other teams having fun in the 2016 postseason.
I don't know who I want to win the 2016 World Series: Blue Jays, Tigers, Giants, Cubs, Red Sox, etc... etc...
Maybe the Orioles or Indians. The Rangers, I've got a ton of respect for them, but I can't cheer for our abusers.

TL:DR - I feel very upset the Astros lost again. 2-6 in our last 8 games. Our offense just disappeared.
Sorry if I misspelled some words. I'm not in the mood to spell check and I just typed all of this super fast.

Usually when I feel like I do right now I keep to myself and I allow the losses to fade away over time. But I'm not going to run away and hide my emotions this time. I'll tell you how I feel. I'm already on my fourth big glass of milk. It's only helping a little bit but what can you do? That's baseball I guess.

you didnt try very hard, did you?

Wtf, this is a regular season game.

Why start now?

Pretty good quote tbh

I fucking cried

In addition to the "trying to keep it short" intro and the fourth glass of milk, I also enjoyed the parenthetical clarification that "letter high pitches" means they're up in the zone lol

I can see a good young team that will probably finish with a winning record for a second straight year.
But something important is missing. There are no consistently good middle-of-the-order hitters.

Yulieski Gurriel may or may not help in a few weeks when he's called up.
Luis Valbuena may or may not help when he comes off the DL around the same time.

Hopefully Jose Altuve can still win the 2016 AL MVP if the Astros miss the playoffs.
He had three more hits in the 2-1 loss against the Blue Jays. He's been at .360 or above this late in the season.

.360 with 19 home runs, 63 RBIs and a .426 on-base %, with a 1.000 OPS.
He also has 25 stolen bases (only 4 caught stealing). He leads all of baseball in total hits and batting average.

Jose Altuve is second in the Major Leagues in WAR at 6.26. Only Mike Trout is higher at 6.77

I like our young pitching with Lance McCullers (22) and Joe Musgrove (23).
They can both dazzle you with great stuff. Musgrove wasn't traded so we'll see.
Hopefully Lance McCullers isn't seriously hurt. Discomfort in his right elbow is why he left the game.

I just want to move ahead another year or two, when hopefully we can add some more talent in free agency. We need some serious "power and production" in the middle of our lineup. Until then we're not an elite team in the American League like all the big boys. Every "real contender" in the AL has serious thump in the middle of their lineup but not us.

The Astros are like that junior high bully that looks like a dangerous Mike Tyson.
But when we try to play with the high school kids we get knocked out by Lennox Lewis.

It's 2:30 AM and I can't find a better analogy. That's all I have. I see the makings of something good but it's not complete yet.

Madmartigan is the biggest sports fan forsure

you need to like get a hobby or something man, and maybe some antidepressants and possibly a support group