Your favorite sports teams will always pull at your heartstrings....

....it just depends on what happens afterwards. Can they rebound and salvage the season with a winning record, or better, a playoff appearance? Or as the Jays did can they improve their team in the off season the next year in hopes of beginning new winning ways? I get all excited by the names Jose Reyes, Melky Cabrera, RA Dickey, Josh Johnson, and Mark Buhrle, before any games that matter are played. I'll still be a fan if they go 70 and 92, but I'd rather not prove that point thank you very much. The season begins and your team loses, big deal one-hundred sixty-one more winning opportunities left. Plenty of time to figure new things out with a new look team. But then nine games later this terrible news for any Toronto Blue Jays baseball fan. Here's an image to set this up. I bought a Jose Reyes Toronto Blue Jays jersey last December. All excited, a new year and new baseball season, a new beginning. Reyes is stealing second base in the sixth inning...safe! Sweet he's is doing his thing, that is just one more.....uh oh, he's not getting up! Now he grabbing his ankle and actually crying out in pain. Men cry too. Jose Reyes is injured in game ten of 162, oh my! Now I have to wear this dark blue jersey and not be able to cheer for him, what gives? Don't get me wrong I love Jose Reyes, which is why I wanted his name and number on the back of my jersey, but these constant injuries by the team year after are becoming too predictable, yet I am still hopeful every spring with the prospect of following the Jays back to World Series greatness. I have to keep telling myself, each team gets the injury bug at some point throughout the season, and some more than others. When it happens to your team, it's like the sports gods hate you and it doesn't matter what the other teams are doing. Sports makes one lose all sense of common sense. We jump up and down when we are happy, even though we have nothing to do with the game as we're sitting or laying down watching the game on TV. Or, we curse the TV if the play doesn't go our team's way. I know if the Jays win or lose their next game, my life will not change....or will it, ha! Well, of course, it won't change, but as a pet is loyal to it's owner, I feel loyal to my Toronto Blue Jays every year whether it's a winning season or not. . Now ten games in and playing number eleven as I type this, I am really frustrated. Then when the Jays start winning, I know all this tugging and pulling at my emotions will be for good and make the recent success all the more fun to enjoy.  But when will that day come I'd really like to know. Like everything else in life, I just have to go on living each day and following each game as part of that existence. Okay, I just really want to see The Toronto Blue Jays beat the NY Yankees in the standings! I am sick of rooting for other AL East teams to beat the Yankees, because the Jays are usually in fourth place by the end of the year. It's been 20 years since the second straight World Series victory, and while it was back-to-back championships, it's been twenty years, fans or overdue a winning year with playoff implications. Well, four wins through ten games is playing .400 ball, so it's not all bad in baseball numbers, but it won't be easy, and I imagine more heart-pounding games to come involving these Blue Jays. I hope they continue playing well into October, it will make the stress of being a Toronto Blue Jays fan with a Jose Reyes jersey waiting to be worn with him back on the field so much fun and worth while.