A lot of San Diego fans are calling it the most disappointing season ever. And for many fans that goes back five decades.
And even some baseball experts, looking on from outside San Diego, say it could be the most disappointing for the Padres.
As one told Marty Caswell from XTRA Sports 1360, the expectations were so high at the start of the season, with a big payroll filled with a bunch of all-star quality players, he called what has happened to the Padres “one of the more shocking things he can remember seeing in baseball.”
Even off the baseball fields, huge expectations can often lead to huge disappointments.
What we expect to happen is often something that doesn’t happen. We expect to get the job we want but then we don’t get it. We expect our candidate to win an election and they don/’t.
Same goes when we expect something to never happen, and it happens. Take a wildfire for example. Most of us never expect our house to be destroyed by a wildfire, but it has happened to thousands of Californians over the years who never expected it to happen to them.
We all discover as we go through life that disappointments sometimes happen, in a variety of things. But we also discover how to get over them and move on from disappointments and even learn from them.
Something for all of us to keep in mind as Padre fans say, "Wait until next year!".