Depression after a loss

[goshan]

I am as depressed and mad after the Rangers game last night as I was after the loss to the lions. This is unheard of for me - usually this feeling is reserved for the Cowboys.

Anyone else?



BTW-I thought about it Mods-this is a Cowboys topic.

 

[Direwolf63]

I'm not a baseball guy, but I can't be talked to after a Cowboys loss. Especially after a game I thought they should have won. The Jets and Lions games immediatley come to mind.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

I'm not a baseball guy, but I can't be talked to after a Cowboys loss. Especially after a game I thought they should have won. The Jets and Lions games immediatley come to mind.

Me, I need people around me to share in the disappointment and to console me.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

I am as depressed and mad after the Rangers game last night as I was after the loss to the lions. This is unheard of for me - usually this feeling is reserved for the Cowboys.

Anyone else?



BTW-I thought about it Mods-this is a Cowboys topic.

Meh, baseball isn't really a sport. And the Rangers are really a Texas team, unlike the Cowboys.
Baseball is soooooooo boring 95% of the time. I must admit the game last nite was exciting, but it is the exception to the rule.

NFL football = a real sport
Cowboys = a real team

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

I'm not a baseball guy, but I can't be talked to after a Cowboys loss. Especially after a game I thought they should have won. The Jets and Lions games immediatley come to mind.

I've gotten much better in dealing with the Cowboys losing in the way of putting it in the back of my mind. I try not to let it affect how I interact with my family, perform my job, etc.

However and maybe this helps, after a Cowboys loss I am not able to watch any football related TV (ESPN, NFLN) as I do not want to see replays, hear analysts crap, etc. for the entire week after. I do not, in any way, want to re-live the loss. It is old news to me.

On the flip and when we win - I'm a football TV junky!!

 

[CoCo]

I am as depressed and mad after the Rangers game last night as I was after the loss to the lions. This is unheard of for me - usually this feeling is reserved for the Cowboys.

Anyone else?



BTW-I thought about it Mods-this is a Cowboys topic.

I'm a big Cardinals fan. I stopped watching after the B-T-B HR's. Found something else to do while the rest of the family watched. I stopped so I WOULDN'T get mad or depressed.

My youngest burst into my bedroom while I was trying to go to sleep to tell me Freese tied the game with his triple. Though I was trying to be emotionally detached I certainly was glad. A few minutes later, still not asleep, I hear a family member yell that the Rangers just hit a 2 run HR. Still trying to stay detached, but now very disappointed and feeling justified in going to bed.

Had a hard time sleeping, wondering if someone would yell an update even though I didn't want one.

When I got up at 4:30 this morning my daughter left a note.

BEST! GAME! EVER!

Needless to say I scrambled to the internet. My mood brightened.

I don't like dampening my day or evening when my team loses. I never walk away from a Boys game. I'm too hooked. But I thought last night when I was lying in bed that I really ought to consider that if I can't grow up about it.

PS - after the Cowboys blew that lead to the Lions I deliberately skipped the Cards-Phils that evening because I was still in "Cowboy recovery." Seeing the win the next morning helped but I just couldn't risk the disappointment potential of watching the game.

 

[Stautner]

I am as depressed and mad after the Rangers game last night as I was after the loss to the lions. This is unheard of for me - usually this feeling is reserved for the Cowboys.

Anyone else?



BTW-I thought about it Mods-this is a Cowboys topic.

I'm way more depressed after the Rangers loss. This is the World Series, not an individual game early in the season.

Of course a lot depends on how much of a baseball fan you are, and how much of a Ranger fan in particular you are. I've been a Cowboy fan probably longer than most posters on this site have been alive, and the Cowboys are my first love as a sports team having ridden the emotion roller coaster with them since I was old enough to pay attention (around 43 years). But baseball is the sport I have the biggest direct connection with, having played or coached baseball at one level or another for about 35 years. I ususally make the trip to Arlington 2-3 times a year, catching anywhere from 4-10 games, and I make 1 home playoff game every round. The connection for me is pretty big.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I'm a big Cardinals fan. I stopped watching after the B-T-B HR's. Found something else to do while the rest of the family watched. I stopped so I WOULDN'T get mad or depressed.

My youngest burst into me bedroom while I was trying to go to sleep to tell me Freese tied the game with his triple. Though I was trying to be emotionally detached I certainly was glad. A few minutes later, still not asleep, I hear a family member yell that the Rangers just hit a 2 run HR. Still trying to stay detached, but now very disappointed and feeling justified in going to bed.

Had a hard time sleeping, wondering if someone would yell an update even though I didn't want one.

When I got up at 4:30 this morning my daughter left a note.

BEST! GAME! EVER!

Needless to say I scrambled to the internet. My mood brightened.

I don't like dampening my day or evening when my team loses. I never walk away from a Boys game. I'm too hooked. But I thought last night when I was lying in bed that I really ought to consider that if I can't grow up about it.

I went to bed in the bottom of the 7th or top of the 8th so I missed all the excitement also

 

[windward]

The Cowboys will always be number one for me, but I really have become attached to this particular Rangers team. Odysseus ordering the MLB Extra Innings package in 2007 and have seen the entire rebuilding effort.

Last night appeared to be the crowning moment of this franchise. But now I feel like I've been kicked in the balls.

 

[yimyammer]

I am as depressed and mad after the Rangers game last night as I was after the loss to the lions. This is unheard of for me - usually this feeling is reserved for the Cowboys.

Anyone else?



BTW-I thought about it Mods-this is a Cowboys topic.

yep and I'm not even much of a Ranger or baseball fan, I don't recall ever feeling worse about any sports loss I've ever seen my team lose.

There seems to be something about baseball that makes me more tense and superstitious. I am more emotionally invested in the Cowboys than any other team in any sport, yet I've never felt so gross.

I wish I wasn't a Ranger fan so I could have just enjoyed this phenomenal game as a casual fan.

I feel like I'm about to get a taste of what the Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Viking fans have suffered.

I've been pretty damn fortunate as a sports fan and shouldn't feel so crappy, it'll wear off in a few days, but right now it sucks, they were just so tantalizingly close so many times last night and I think this adds to the pain

 

[yimyammer]

I've gotten much better in dealing with the Cowboys losing in the way of putting it in the back of my mind. I try not to let it affect how I interact with my family, perform my job, etc.

However and maybe this helps, after a Cowboys loss I am not able to watch any football related TV (ESPN, NFLN) as I do not want to see replays, hear analysts crap, etc. for the entire week after. I do not, in any way, want to re-live the loss. It is old news to me.

On the flip and when we win - I'm a football TV junky!!

lol, me too!

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

Series isn't over bro.

 

[Stautner]

The Cowboys will always be number one for me, but I really have become attached to this particular Rangers team. Odysseus ordering the MLB Extra Innings package in 2007 and have seen the entire rebuilding effort.

Last night appeared to be the crowning moment of this franchise. But now I feel like I've been kicked in the balls.

That's a good time span to have latched onto the Rangers. You really did get to see the right way to build a team, and it's a good group of guys that have a hell of a good time playing together.

 

[yimyammer]

I'm a big Cardinals fan. I stopped watching after the B-T-B HR's. Found something else to do while the rest of the family watched. I stopped so I WOULDN'T get mad or depressed.

My youngest burst into my bedroom while I was trying to go to sleep to tell me Freese tied the game with his triple. Though I was trying to be emotionally detached I certainly was glad. A few minutes later, still not asleep, I hear a family member yell that the Rangers just hit a 2 run HR. Still trying to stay detached, but now very disappointed and feeling justified in going to bed.

Had a hard time sleeping, wondering if someone would yell an update even though I didn't want one.

When I got up at 4:30 this morning my daughter left a note.

BEST! GAME! EVER!

Needless to say I scrambled to the internet. My mood brightened.

I don't like dampening my day or evening when my team loses. I never walk away from a Boys game. I'm too hooked. But I thought last night when I was lying in bed that I really ought to consider that if I can't grow up about it.

PS - after the Cowboys blew that lead to the Lions I deliberately skipped the Cards-Phils that evening because I was still in "Cowboy recovery." Seeing the win the next morning helped but I just couldn't risk the disappointment potential of watching the game.

I'm SO jealous!! Congrats buddy, it was a great game for everyone but the Ranger fans

 

[yimyammer]

Series isn't over bro.

I know, I'm a TERRIBLE ranger fan, I just don't see how they recover from that

 

[windward]

The Cowboys will always be number one for me, but I really have become attached to this particular Rangers team. Odysseus ordering the MLB Extra Innings package in 2007 and have seen the entire rebuilding effort.

Last night appeared to be the crowning moment of this franchise. But now I feel like I've been kicked in the balls.

Odysseus? Stupid auto correct.

 

[Stautner]

I know, I'm a TERRIBLE ranger fan, I just don't see how they recover from that

The thing to realize is that in baseball one inning can change the momentum. Without a doubt the Cards will come in with the upper hand, but if the Rangers can get some hits early the momentum can swing quickly, and even if they can keep it close they will have a chance to win late like the Cards did last night, and the Rangers did in game 5.

Keep this in mind as well. Even getting to the playoffs requires playing 162 games with the knowledge that an individual game doesn't define a team, and that even after a crushing defeat tomorrow is a new day in which you can get things going your way again. Teams would never successfully get through that long and grueling a season without that knowledge.

A final consideration is that sometimes when a team pulls off something like the Cards did last night, they have a hard time coming back with the same intensity the next day. Last night was pretty close to a game 7 feel for the Cards knowing they had to win or it was over. The cards came away from last night with a sense of accomplishment, whereas the Rangers came away with a sense of unfinished business. The mindset might well favor the Rangers.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Have to be honest. Two things I hate more then watching the Cowboys lose on any given Sunday is watching the Horns lose to OU in the shootout and watching the Heels lose to Duke in College Basketball.

 

[yimyammer]

The thing to realize is that in baseball one inning can change the momentum. Without a doubt the Cards will come in with the upper hand, but if the Rangers can get some hits early the momentum can swing quickly, and even if they can keep it close they will have a chance to win late like the Cards did last night, and the Rangers did in game 5.

Keep this in mind as well. Even getting to the playoffs requires playing 162 games with the knowledge that an individual game doesn't define a team, and that even after a crushing defeat tomorrow is a new day in which you can get things going your way again. Teams would never successfully get through that long and grueling a season without that knowledge.

A final consideration is that sometimes when a team pulls off something like the Cards did last night, they have a hard time coming back with the same intensity the next day. Last night was pretty close to a game 7 feel for the Cards knowing they had to win or it was over. The cards came away from last night with a sense of accomplishment, whereas the Rangers came away with a sense of unfinished business. The mindset might well favor the Rangers.

GAWD, I HOPE YOU'RE RIGHT & the Rangers pull this off!!!

 

[windward]

That's a good time span to have latched onto the Rangers. You really did get to see the right way to build a team, and it's a good group of guys that have a hell of a good time playing together.

I have been a more or less casual fan of the Ramgers since I was 6 in 1989. Mostly due to Nolan Ryan. But living in Hawaii, we only got 10 or so Rangers games a year, not really enough to sustain a really passionate interest. The mid 90s were kinda fun ( Rusty Greer was my favorite player on those teams).

But now that I watch the majority of the Rangers games, they have done a great job at entrenching themselves as my number 2 team in all of sports.