What's wrong with me?
↵If you told me a year ago that the Texans would be cruising in on a playoff bid, that the Astros finally had a new owner and had cleaned house in the front office and that the Rockets were actually going to play games in 2011 (maybe), I should have been really happy.
↵The key words there are "should have." Instead, circumstances mean I'm more dejected than excited, more downtrodden than upbeat. In short, it's just like any other year.
↵Maybe this is just me. Maybe you other fans out there aren't as defeatist as I am at this point. The consecutive injuries to Matt Schaub and Matt Leinart coupled with the move to the American League just took it out of me. And, I didn't even mention the talk of a rebuilding project with the local basketball team.
↵Hope is a fickle thing for a sports fan. It waxes and wanes and most fans keep a sense of it even after some of the most crushing losses pile up. I just need to tap into that feeling again, because right now, the silver lining is getting harder and harder to find.
↵(Cue Andrew Friedman's press conference...)
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