Thirty games.
That's all that remains in the 2008 ULB season. And we're now at the stage where every game is crucial, since Edinburg is just 3 games behind Laredo for the fourth and final playoff spot.
A dejected Jose Melendez - the Broncos GM - sat lingering after last night's game.
"After that horrible fifth inning (when Alexandria scored five runs on six hits to take a 6-1 lead), I said, 'Watch us lose 6-5'," Melendez said. "And sure, enough we did. It's frustrating. We always do just enough to lose."
The Broncos are aware of their issues. It's not like they can't identify them.
The main concern is that these are issues that have lingered all season. There has been minimal - if any - improvement.
One bad error here. A tough inning there.
"If we went by how many innings we won, we'd be in first place," Melendez joked. "We generally have eight good innings and one bad one, but that one always costs us."
Melendez is disgusted at the team's mental psyche. According to him, this is a team that just doesn't get it - it doesn't understand the significance of situational hitting and fielding, and it almost always is the attacked, never the attacker.
It's clear Melendez has run out of answers. There's only so much raw talent can accomplish.
League officials, without hesitation, have praised the team's talent, admirable of Melendez for doing things the right way and getting the most out of what he's been given (which can't be said for all the other clubs).
And still, the Broncos are two games under .500, in the midst of a streak in which they've seven of nine games at a point when they can least afford it.
"Maybe I'm too negative, I don't know," Melendez said. "I just don't get it. Here we are, supposed to be one of the most talented teams in the league and we're struggling like this.
"I don't know what else to do."
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