I've never had such a change in feeling about a team's overall baseball season mid-game. Tonight had a touch of fall in the air and this felt like it was going to be our playoffs, win or lose. We could easily lose to a team like Houston with our best, which would be disappointing of course, but I was excited for the feel of a playoff game even if we didn't get to experience the real thing this year. Instead it's being treated as a mid-May game, losing in a middle-inning white-flag way with the worst pitcher on our roster, a "no hands on deck" game...and it just pours cold water on any sense that we were headed for a potentially exciting stretch run of the season in search of a playoff berth. Totally unexpected too.