This city can handle frustrating roster-building moves, and it can certainly handle losing. The constant barrage it\u2019s come in this fall and winter is quite a lot to process.<\/p>\n
It hasn\u2019t just been a bad week for the Sixers, who capped off a 1-3 week by blowing a 10-point fourth quarter lead to an Eastern Conference rival. If anything, it\u2019s been rougher on the other local ball clubs.<\/p>\n
The Eagles\u2019 title defense fell flat on its face in the first round of the NFL playoffs. A season\u2019s worth of offensive frustration culminating in an extremely winnable loss to the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n
After three straight playoff flameouts, the Phillies appeared poised to finally shake up their lineup by adding infielder Bo Bichette, who just played a big role in Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 run to the World Series. Not only did the Phillies fail to sign Bichette, but he ended up signing with the hated New York Mets.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t really follow hockey at all but I see that the Flyers have now lost five games in a row as well.<\/p>\n
This is not even the first week from hell Philadelphia sports fans have suffered in the past 6 months. Back in mid-October, the Phillies were eliminated by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs, the walk-off play being a bone-headed play by relief pitcher Orion Kerkering errantly coming home with a comebacker as opposed to getting the easy out at first base.<\/p>\n
That very same night, the Eagles suffered a humiliating loss to another division rival, the New York Giants. They didn\u2019t just lose to a team that would win four games all season, but were run off the field in a 34-17 blowout.<\/p>\n
The nice thing about having four sports team in your city is when one frustrates you, there\u2019s normally another one getting their season underway or kicking into gear to distract you from that.<\/p>\n
As someone who not just blogs about the Sixers, but covers them, I\u2019ve detached myself from rooting for them. That certainly isn\u2019t the case for those other two teams.<\/p>\n
Back on Oct. 9, the day of Game 4 of the NLDS and the Thursday Night Football matchup, I was dying for that Eagles game to kick off. Like so many, I was skeptical of the Phils being successful on their third attempt at running it back, and when they were already on the brink of elimination, I was just ready for it to be over.<\/p>\n